Currently, New Zealand is home to three invasive species of rat. These species include the Pacific rat which arrived from Polynesia around the 12th century, the ship rat which arrived near the end of the 1700s and the Norway rat which can be traced back to about 1860. All of these rat species prey on native lizards, insects and birds and are said to be responsible for a notable decline and relevant extinction of many native species.
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