Much of the current funding is to monitor cargo going from Guam to Hawaii to be certain a brown tree snake has not become a passenger.
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During the night, Ansell slept in a tree fork out of reach of crocodiles, although he shared the tree with a brown tree snake.
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Netarhat School's biology laboratory has a collection of live and preserved snake varieties that include cobras, pit vipers, tree snakes and pythons.
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On Guam there are believed to be very few remaining birds, the population having been much reduced since the introduction of the brown tree snake.
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The intruders go by names such as larch canker and soybean rust fungus, Asian gypsy moths and black carp, Africanized bees and brown tree snakes.
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The northern and southern populations of blunthead tree snakes exhibit different sexual dimorphism, the existence of two different traits of a species in the same population.
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Shortly after World War II, the brown tree snake was introduced to the island of Guam and caused much of the endemic wildlife to become extinct.
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Ten out of twelve endemic bird species, ten lizards and two bats all became extinct as a result of the introduction of the brown tree snake.
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In recent years, a lot has been done by the U . S . government to decrease the number of brown tree snakes on the island.
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It is Near Threatened by the IUCN due to likely habitat loss and the possibility of the establishment of the invasive brown tree snake on the island.
