Feral house cats have invaded Hawaii
They are killing the state’s native species. Some Hawaiians want to cull them instead
WHEN MARK TWAIN first set eyes on Honolulu in 1866, he observed that the trees were so dense that they blocked the sunlight, lava from past volcanic eruptions covered the corals—and cats were everywhere. In a dispatch for the Sacramento Union, Twain reported seeing “tame cats, wild cats, singed cats, individual cats, groups of cats, platoons of cats, companies of cats, regiments of cats, armies of cats, multitudes of cats, millions of cats, and all of them sleek, fat, lazy, and sound asleep”.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Cat got your tern”
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