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    The Polynesian rat, Pacific rat or little rat (Rattus exulans), known to the Māori as kiore, is the third most widespread species of rat in the world behind...
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    (Rattus enganus) – Indonesia (potentially extinct) Philippine forest rat (Rattus everetti) – the Philippines Polynesian rat or kiore (Rattus exulans)...
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    Māori, who hunted moa to extinction, introduced the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans), and destroyed large tracts of forest by fire. Haast's eagle was first...
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    habitat loss and introduced predators, such as the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans). Tuatara were extinct on the mainland, with the remaining populations...
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    "Molecular Genetic Evidence for the Place of Origin of the Pacific Rat, Rattus exulans". PLOS ONE. 9 (3): e91356. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...991356T. doi:10.1371/journal...
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    (Monachus schauinslandi) haul out on its beaches. The polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) has been on the island since it was discovered. The coral reef is a...
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    rat (Rattus norvegicus), and related species like the black rat (Rattus rattus), Rattus pyctoris, Rattus nitidus, Rattus argentiventer, Rattus tanezumi...
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    one coconut crab was observed killing and eating a Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans). In 2016, a large coconut crab was observed climbing a tree to disable...
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    mammalian predators on its island, such as black rats (Rattus rattus), Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans), feral cats (Felis catus), and free-ranging goats...
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    The only mammals native to the region are the common Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) and the goats. The rat seems to have been introduced by seafarers many...
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    Sanana island, only the introduced Rattus tanezumi and Rattus exulans are found. Gerrie, R.; Kennerley, R. (2017). "Rattus elaphinus". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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    forest rat Rattus exulans - Polynesian rat Rattus facetus - Lore Lindu xanthurus rat Rattus feliceus - Spiny Ceram rat Rattus foramineus? Rattus fuscipes...
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    Oppel, S.; Meyer, J-Y; Russell, J. C. (2020). "A successful Pacific rat Rattus exulans eradication on tropical Reiono Island (Tetiaroa Atoll, French Polynesia)...
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    the world. The best-known rat species are the black rat (Rattus rattus) and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus). This group, generally known as the Old World...
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    Statistics. Retrieved 6 July 2022. "issg Database: Distribution Details for Rattus exulans". "Insular Area Summary for American Samoa". U.S. Department of the...
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    Black rat (redirect from Rattus rattus)
    black rat (Rattus rattus), also known as the roof rat, ship rat, or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the stereotypical rat genus Rattus, in the...
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    Exploration, and with a fourth species in the Pacific, the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans), have severely damaged island biotas around the world. For example...
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    Biodiversity: Rattus rattus – Ship Rat". Cookislands.bishopmuseum.org. Retrieved 18 November 2011. "Cook Islands Biodiversity: Rattus exulans – Pacific Rat"...
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    The Māori also brought two species of land mammals, Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) and kurī, a breed of domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris). In pre-human...
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    from predation by hermit crabs (Coenobita) and the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans), with which it was able to co-exist. When ornithologist Alexander Wetmore...
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    efforts is to eradicate these islands’ populations of Pacific rats (Rattus exulans) that prey on their native insects, birds and lizards. These islands...
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    completed her doctoral thesis No hea te kiore : MtDNA variation in Rattus exulans : a model for human colonisation and contact in prehistoric Polynesia...
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    arriving about 800–1,000 years ago, bringing dogs and Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) and hunting takahē for food, started another decline. European settlement...
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    recent arrival of the pueo in Hawai’i may be linked to Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans), which were brought to the islands by humans. The only truly native...
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    none being indigenous or endemic. They include the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans), dogs, cats and pigs. Among the 75 bird species, the Bokikokiko (Acrocephalus...
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    that live there were introduced by humans like the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) and bats Dobsonia inermis, Pteropus cognatus, Emballonura nigrescens...
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    "Evidence of predation on a young tuatara, Sphenodon punctatus, by kiore, Rattus exulans, on Lady Alice Island". New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 15 (3): 443–446...
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  • House mouse, Mus musculus Pacific rat, Rattus exulans Brown rat, Rattus norvegicus Black rat, Rattus rattus Five-lined palm squirrel, Funambulus pennantii...
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    2000. Barnes, S.S.; et al. (2006). "Ancient DNA of the Pacific rat (Rattus exulans) from Rapa Nui (Easter Island)" (PDF). Journal of Archaeological Science...
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