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Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans, control and management
POLYNESIAN RATS Mark E. Tobin Project Leader Hawaii Field Station Denver Wildlife Research Center USDA-APHIS-ADC Hilo, Hawaii 96721 > Fig. 1. Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans Identification The Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) is smaller than either the Norway rat (R. norvegicus) or the roof rat (R. rattus). Polynesian rats have ...
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Nature & Co New Zealand - Tiritiri Matangi Island
Conservation. Ecological district: Inner Gulf Islands Ecological District. Abstract of conservation achievements and objectives: Kiore (polynesian rat) has been eradicated in 1993. To restore a thriving indigenous ecosystem representative of the inner ...
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Information Index for Selected Alien Vertebrates in Hawaii - a product of the HEAR project
Polynesian rat HEAR info: Distribution on main Hawaiian islands Rattus exulans literature references Rattus norvegicus ssp. norvegicus (Muridae) - brown rat HEAR info: Distribution on main Hawaiian islands Rattus rattus ssp. rattus (Muridae) - black rat ...
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Reptiles: Tuataras
Crook. 1973. The tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus Gray, on islands with and without populations of the Polynesian rat... Proc. NZ Ecol. Soc. 20: 115-20. Newman. 1977. Some evidence of the predation of ...
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Mouse, Rat, Hamster Sounds
A mouse trap can also be used to catch mice. A rat is a small omnivorous rodent of the genus Rattus. Rats ... rat is used in the names of other small mammals but they are not true rats. Examples include the wood or pack rat, the Polynesian Rat and a number of species loosely called kangaroo rats. and the Mole Rat, Bandicota bengalensis. Taxonmony Phylum: ...
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Extinct Birds of NZ The Huia
Domestic dogs and the Polynesian rat were both introduced to New Zealand by Maori. Huia chicks would have been killed by the Polynesian rat (kiore) and adult huia may have been ...
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Lubee Bat Conservancy :: People, Plants, & Bats :: Regional Conservation Issues :: Oceania & South Pacific Islands
Successive waves of Polynesian, Melanesian and the Micronesian settlers from the Indo-Malayan region brought crop plants and animals like poultry, pigs and the polynesian rat Rattus exulans. Spaniards ... spread over thousands of hectares, and are also frequent on Tahiti and other Polynesian islands (Wodzicki, 1981). Tourism Tourism is an increasingly important environmental problem in the ...
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I> (Muridae) in the Hawaiian Islands as of 05/98 Alien Species in Hawaii Polynesian rat Status of Rattus exulans ssp. hawaiiensis (Muridae) in the main Hawaiian Islands as of 05 ...
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Rose Atoll Seabird Photographs, Phillip Colla Natural History Photography
The Polynesian rat may still exist on the island (some eradication efforts have been done in the past ...
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EDGE :: Species Search
Elegant Madagascar frog (Spinomantis elegans)Elegant margareta rat (Margaretamys elegans)Elvira rat (Cremnomys elvira)Emilia's gracile mouse opossum (Gracilinanus ... rat (Tympanoctomys barrerae)Polar bear (Ursus maritimus)Polillo forest frog (Platymantis polillensis)Polynesian sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura semicaudata)Pomugu wrinkled ground frog (Platymantis akarithyma)Poncelet's giant rat ...
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