Ecology 6th Edition by Charles Krebs

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The birds, lizards, and mammals of Guam in the western Pacific Ocean have been driven to extinction or to low numbers by the introduced brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis). How could this happen? Is it adaptive for a predator to drive its prey to extinction? Read the discussion in Rodda el al. (1997) and evaluate the uniqueness of this situation.