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Festivito

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15. Saving endangered flightless birds in New Zealand jumps to places without flightless birds.

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Sat Feb 2, 2013, 01:41 PM

Feb 2013

This is a non issue in the US.

In the south Pacific there are lots of places where flightless birds were eaten to extinction. It is then thought that the inhabitants then started to each each other, humans, cannibalism.

Not that NZ will go that far, it's just that too many cats there have it too easy. Those birds can't fly away unlike the radio and TV pundits who's brains can.

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About those killer cats - [View all] hedgehog Feb 2013 OP

Scott's Bird Seed Kills Birds - $12.5 Million Court Case appleannie1 Feb 2013 #1

What were they (Scotts) thinking????? alstephenson Feb 2013 #6

Money, money, money, money. Sadly it took 2 years before they were caught. appleannie1 Feb 2013 #13

Yes....Maybe "Killer Cats" is cover for what Scotts did plus environmental KoKo Feb 2013 #23

Skyscrapers kill 1 to 9 million per year, as well. GoCubsGo Feb 2013 #2

The "study" is bogus MzNov Feb 2013 #3

+1 joeybee12 Feb 2013 #4

Thank you!!!! nt. OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #10

...... smokey nj Feb 2013 #11

I thought this was already documented in the UK a while back. Mojorabbit Feb 2013 #18

cats have been killing birds throughout time immemorial Motown_Johnny Feb 2013 #5

predators are crucial to population health. mopinko Feb 2013 #7

Bird sanctuary reteachinwi Feb 2013 #8

What kind of carts? tledford Feb 2013 #9

Funny how when a dog attacks somebody, generally the OWNER is blamed forestpath Feb 2013 #12

I think it depends on the environment - hedgehog Feb 2013 #14

Cats don't have owners slackmaster Feb 2013 #16

Saving endangered flightless birds in New Zealand jumps to places without flightless birds. Festivito Feb 2013 #15

It's not a nonissue in the US XemaSab Feb 2013 #17

I'm not buying that it's not a nonissue. Festivito Feb 2013 #19

That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think XemaSab Feb 2013 #20

Again, I think numbers on mortality are incomplete until we know the replacement rate - hedgehog Feb 2013 #22

The assumption that cats are spread uniformly across the lower US seems unlikely. Festivito Feb 2013 #24

Killer cats !!!!!!! salimc Feb 2013 #21