
Araka瀑布我们好像也去过, 不过那天下雨,一路泥泞,印象中的瀑布远不如笑嘻嘻拍得这么好看!你们这次旅行呆了几天啊?感觉比我去两次大岛玩的地方都多的多。
而且貌似夏威夷传说里面有体格跟大的蜥蜴是以保护神出现,所以大家很喜欢这些小蜥蜴。Back in the ’70s, the state issued permits to bring in certain reptiles, though not day geckoes. A special exemp-
tion was given to the Honolulu Zoo, how-ever, to import Phelsuma for its exhibits. They were to be kept in enclosures only, but some didn’t obey that restriction. Sean McKeown, then curator of herpetology at the Honolulu Zoo and an enthusiastic hobbyist, released several Phelsuma species on zoo grounds. “The idea was that isolated stands of plants, like palms, could serve as ‘islands’ for colonies,” recalls Tihoti Maha‘a, a former student of McKeown’s. It was thought that the geckoes would stay on these islands, and in many cases that was true. Many of the zoo colonies died out, but not all. The stunning blue-tailed day gecko “persisted in the vicinity of the monkey exhibits through the ’90s,” Maha‘a says, “when the zoo implemented measures to recapture the colony.” No effort was made to recapture gold dusts, because by then there wasn’t much point—they were established else-where on O‘ahu. McKeown, who died in 2002, is also responsible for introducing orange-spotteds in Kailua. The area around his former home, just two blocks away from the van Ryzins, is guimbeaui ground zero. Maha‘a recalls that McKeown had once given his neighbor a “shoebox of brightly colored lizards” to release on his property, which according to Maha‘a the neighbor did.
In this day and age, introducing alien species into a closed island ecosystem like Hawai‘i seems like an anathema. With so many cautionary tales already out there, it’s hard to imagine that anyone would be willing to take such a risk. But McKeown had a different attitude toward alien introductions than many biologists do, Maha‘a says. “Sean was very much a product of a time when introductions were seen as potentially beneficial or even improvements to a place. … There was no malice intended.” Nevertheless, in 1997 the state cracked down on the import and export of reptiles, not so much because of geckoes but because of a more serious threat, the Jackson’s chameleon. But it was too late: Phelsuma were established, and no one could do much about it.