Japanese island eradicates rabbit-killing mongoose

[Collection]Japan has wiped out all mongooses on a subtropical island, officials said, after the animals ignored the venomous snakes they were brought in to hunt and preyed on endangered local rabbits instead. "It is said that the mongooses, which are active during the day, rarely came into contact with the nocturnal habu snakes," a local official told AFP. The rabbits only live on Amami Oshima and one other island and are listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list.