For the last several decades, Hawai‛i has feared the accidental introduction of the brown tree snake, which has wreaked havoc on Guam since their arrival in 1952. Fortunately, their legless cousins didn’t make the trip, and laws were eventually put into place to prevent the introduction of snakes, recognizing the threat to our native birds.Īs people and cargo move through Hawai‛i, there is always a risk of new introductions.
#SNAKE DISCOVERY ZOO WINDOWS#
The geckos and lizards that are common visitors to our windows and rock walls arrived with the assistance of humans. Land-dwelling reptiles were among those excluded by the perilous journey (and their physiology) from starting new lives in Hawai‛i. The establishment of a species was a rare event, estimated to happen only once every 10,000-100,000 years. Due to the remote nature of these volcanic islands, organisms had to travel over 2,000 miles by wind or sea to reach these shores, and then survive and reproduce in a strange and sometimes harsh new environment.
The snake was safely turned over to the Hawai‛i Department of Agriculture (HDOA), but the incident left many people asking: do we have snakes in Hawai‛i? The short answer is…sort of!īefore colonization by humans, Hawai‛i was a bird paradise, lacking many of the types of animals found elsewhere in the world. In 2018, County workers got quite the surprise when they discovered a live, three-and-a-half-foot ball python near the Hilo landfill.
0 kommentar(er)
