Mongoose

A ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans), photographed at the Bronx Zoo.

Took this yesterday while playing with my new camera's "Panoramic" setting at Hanauma Bay. Yeah, it's that gorgeous here :) Ok, a couple more beautiful shots:The best place to play baseball. Ever. Perfect scenery But, like just about every beautiful island, Oahu has its share of invasive and introduced species which have wreaked havoc on the native and endemic species. Take this leaping little guy, for example: This is an Indian mongoose, one of the many introduced species which now calls most of the islands of Hawaii home. In the 1800s, as the islands became more and more in contact with the…