Creature Feature

Hawaiian Name: Pua'a Scientific Name:Sus scrofa History: A descendant of the small Asiatic domestic pigs introduced by Polynesians in the early colonization period (400AD) and the larger European domestic pigs first introduced by Captain James Cook in...

Scientific Name: Herpestes 'auropunctatus History: Introduced in 1883 from Jamaica (originally from India), to control rat populations in the sugar cane fields. However, because the mongoose is diurnal and the rat primarily nocturnal, they were not an effective bio-control. ...

Hawaiian Name:Nananana Makaki'i Scientific Name: Theridion grallator...