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The government of Hawaii introduced the mongoose to the islands of Hawaii in order to provide some control over the growing rat problem that was plaguing Hawaii's agricultural economy. The rat problem was indeed treated, however the mongoose were later found to be disrupting the islands' fragile ecosystem by eating indigenous species of birds.

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