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Rats killing native snails on Molokai - Hawaii News

Full story: Honolulu Star-Bulletin

A stunning 85 percent plunge in native Hawaiian tree snail populations began in 1995 at a Molokai site studied by University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers.

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Pierre

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Did any check if the natives of Molokai are eating tree snail escargot ????
molokai boy

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Is our ability as a society to care for snails, while no resourse to handle hungry children around us, got it right? It seems that at a time when we are reducing the number of school days, maybe the snails could be on their own. I know that you are thinking that I just don't understand. While I am thinking we might have our priorties misguided.

Have a nice day.
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Pierre wrote:
Did any check if the natives of Molokai are eating tree snail escargot ????
Hence the title "Rats killing native snails on Molokai."
Understand?
iole

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Sep 27, 2009
 
Rats will eat anything and everything; one of the reasons that they are so destructive.
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iole wrote:
Rats will eat anything and everything; one of the reasons that they are so destructive.
There must be something potent in rat milk given the way the little buggars thrive.
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While running around the Ala Wai Canal I laughed when I saw the “Warning Leptospirosis” signs (bacterial infection, contamination passed in the urine of infected animals) posted by the Board of Health.

Then I saw a rat swimming by ………….
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Issue a bunch of sticks out to the homeless. So many dead rats gets you a bag of food, so many will get you some food, so many for cash, etc. Just don't tell them they are working for a living, they don't like that.
Stuuupid stumpy

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Stumpy wrote:
Issue a bunch of sticks out to the homeless. So many dead rats gets you a bag of food, so many will get you some food, so many for cash, etc. Just don't tell them they are working for a living, they don't like that.
I'd use the sticks for a different purpose. On YOU!
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Stumpy wrote:
Issue a bunch of sticks out to the homeless. So many dead rats gets you a bag of food, so many will get you some food, so many for cash, etc. Just don't tell them they are working for a living, they don't like that.
Think you might have a thread stalker, Stump or maybe an admirer.
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aaliyah wrote:
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Think you might have a thread stalker, Stump or maybe an admirer.
I thinks so too, or maybe he just loves rats?
So What

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I don't know so maybe someone can tell me why we need snails. Do they do something to enhance plants and trees? If the snails serve no useful purpose, why do we have to have UH spend money breeding them and trying to recreate the population?
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So What: because if we don't have the snails, the lehua, and the other native plants and animals then Hawaii will be no different than Orange County, with nothing unique to it, filled with weedy imported junk from around the world, and people who post stupid comments like yours.
Yamatada

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Sep 28, 2009
 
Might as well blame the rats for ruining the economy there by chasing out the tourists.
Molokai has bigger problems than losing native snails.
StateofdaState

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Sep 28, 2009
 
Don't native snails eat native plants..?!?!?
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Sep 28, 2009
 
So What wrote:
I don't know so maybe someone can tell me why we need snails. Do they do something to enhance plants and trees? If the snails serve no useful purpose, why do we have to have UH spend money breeding them and trying to recreate the population?
Does snail bait work on them? I kill every snail I see.
Yeah

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Does snail bait work on them? I kill every snail I see.
lol! I see. Kill the native snails but keep the invasive rats.

Your family lines run deep.
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Sep 28, 2009
 
Munch, crunch, uh-huh, yum-yum, wat else to chew on. It's in the genes.
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rats are native to the islands also..they came on board the canoes.
You Dumb Idiot

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Midnight Rambler wrote:
So What: because if we don't have the snails, the lehua, and the other native plants and animals then Hawaii will be no different than Orange County, with nothing unique to it, filled with weedy imported junk from around the world, and people who post stupid comments like yours.
They have snails in Orange County too. The question was simple. Your answer was Stupid and meaningless. Maybe you shouldn't be posting when your drugged up and drunk.
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Sep 28, 2009
 
Where's Earth Justice? Surely they can find somebody to sue in all this.
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