are there rats in new zealand?
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The ship rat (Rattus rattus) is the most commonly found rat in New Zealand and is the smaller of the two European rat species. ... Ship rats are widespread around New Zealand on the three main islands and on many offshore islands.
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Island homes Tuatara once lived throughout the mainland of New Zealand but have survived in the wild only on 32 offshore islands. These islands are characteristically free of rodents and other introduced mammalian predators which are known to prey on eggs and young as well as compete for invertebrate food.
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Rats. Three non-native species of rats have been introduced to Hawai'i. Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) arrived with Hawaiians about 1600 years ago. ... Rats are agile tree climbers and at least one of the three species is found in all native habitats.
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The Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the sewer rat, harbour rat, wharf rat or common rat, is the only species occurring in Newfoundland. It is not native to North America, but is believed to have been introduced by early settlers when their rat infested ships first visited our eastern shores.
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Rattus norvegicus) is the most common rat in the cities of Crete, and in Europe generally. It is also known as the Norwegian rat, common rat and harbor rat. It lives in basements, warehouses and mostly in sewers, where it builds nests similar to those of birds.
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Are rats native to America? Several species of rats are native to America, such as the cotton, the Florida and the Rocky Mountain rat, but the common black, brown and gray house rats are of Old World origin. Both the black and the brown rat are believed to be natives of China.
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The brown rats of New York and other Eastern American cities trace their ancestry to those in Western Europe. So do brown rats in South America, Africa, New Zealand, and isolated islands scattered across the Atlantic and Pacific. Even today, the ports of New York City are visited by rats from around the world.
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Background. Introduced rodents inhabit many of Australia's offshore islands and are a major threat to biodiversity. On Norfolk Island, the black rat and the Polynesian rat threaten the endangered green parrot by raiding the nests of this iconic bird, smashing and eating the eggs and killing the chicks.
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Rat Snapshot There are two types of rats in BC: the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) and the roof rat (Rattus rattus). Rats are not native to BC and were introduced via boat traffic in the mid-1800s. They tend to thrive only in urban areas where food is abundant or where winters are mild.
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Australia has a large number of indigenous rodents, all from the family Muridae. ... The black rat, brown rat, Pacific rat and house mouse were accidentally introduced to Australia with European settlement, as was a small population of the five-lined palm squirrel near Perth.
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Mice may be tiny but they are a big problem for our native birds, plants and insects. They live in almost every area of New Zealand.
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There are no wild kangaroos, but there are wild, non-native wallabies in a few places in New Zealand, Kawau Island is the best known but they also are found in the central North Islands around Lake Tarawera and near Oamaru in the South Island.
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Although it was long presumed that the kiwi was closely related to the other New Zealand ratites, the moa, recent DNA studies have identified its closest relative as the extinct elephant bird of Madagascar, and among extant ratites, the kiwi is more closely related to the emu and the cassowaries than to the moa.
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Story: Native plants and animals – overview. New Zealand has 6,000 known species of beetle and almost as many fungi, but just two land mammals, both bats. There are giant snails and tree daisies, flightless birds and 1,000-year-old trees – but few reptiles.
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Kiwi (/ˈkiwi/ KEE-wee) or kiwis are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae. Approximately the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites (which also consist of ostriches, emus, rheas, and cassowaries).
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Roof rats cannot, however, cross with Norway rats or any rodent species. Roof rats range along the lower half of the East Coast and throughout the Gulf States upward into Arkansas. They also exist all along the Pacific Coast and are found on the Hawaiian Islands.