What kinds of animals live in Hawaii?
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Hawaii has 8,800 native species found only in Hawaii. Sadly, most of the animals that are only found in Hawaii are endangered. Being isolated on these islands has allowed any animals that made it here to evolve in unique ways. Hawaiian Monk Seals and Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles are endangered species. The Hawaii state bird is the Nene Goose and they are also endangered species. Hawaii once had lots of different non-flying birds only found in the Hawaiian Islands. Many of the first native birds that evolved in the islands were ground dwellers and they had no predators to need to fly from on their isolated island home. Once the rats made it to the island on the canoes of first Hawaiian settlers then they began to eat the birds eggs, then the birds. The early native Hawaiians also hunted the flightless birds as a food source. To help save the birds people introduced mongoose to eat the rats. Unfortunately the mongoose are diurnal, which means they hunt during the day, and the rats are noct
