Kihei life

Over there!  Climbing the rocks…a large mongoose!

From the restaurant balcony at Kahili Golf Course

In our Hawaiian ecosystem, the mongoose is a problem.  They were brought to the islands in the 1800s to suppress the rat population in sugar cane fields.  Now they endanger birds by eating the eggs.  The staff says the mongoose will also eat small fish and have threatened the koi pond.

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-invader-advances-in-hawaii/?_r=0

https://www.hawaii-aloha.com/blog/2012/05/11/mongoose-on-the-loose-a-tale-of-bad-planning/

http://www.instanthawaii.com/cgi-bin/hi?Animals.mongoose