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a heretofore unknown species. They dubbed the new bird the Stephens Island wren, and asked Lyall to send more samples. Lyall tried to comply, but he was finding it increasingly ADVERTISING PROOF difficult to find more samples of the tiny bird. Tues., 6/25/19 Final p.m.. By Changes the time DUE: a year had passed from 5:00 his initial • A similar problem occured on Macquarie Island Please review carefully. Double check: Phone Number(s) Spelling Prices Hours discovery, he could find none at all. located halfway between New Zealand and they were first eaten and then excreted by a certain type of lizard that also lived only on those islands. When cats arrived they ate all the lizards, which then went extinct. The shrub later died out entirely as well.
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• Did you know that cats have been ranked as one of the world’s 100 worst invasive species? In fact, cats can be devastating to local wildlife, especially when confined to islands. One study estimated that 14% of all vertebrate vanishings on islands can be blamed on cat infestations. • Cats originally expanded their populations around the world, largely from traveling aboard ships where they were kept to control rodents. Upon landing at various remote outposts, some of these cats ventured off the vessels and established new populations on land. In many cases, this feline invasion caused the demise of a great number of native species. • Domestic dogs that go feral have a difficult struggle finding food and maintaining their population without the aid of mankind. However, domestic cats who go feral are natural hunters that capture indigenous prey for food. They are able to thrive independently and reproduce their numbers without any help at all from humans.
Antarctica, when an invasive cat population threatened to overrun the land. The cats were subsequently removed, but their absence then resulted in exploding numbers of similarly invasive rabbits. The rapidly reproducing rabbit population soon overran the island, eating up almost all of the plant life. With no vegetation on the steep mountainsides to provide soil integrity, heavy rains resulted in massive mudslides that wiped out much of the island's population of native penguins that lived below.
• The Key Largo wood rat is found only on the island of Key Largo south of Florida. It was so critically endangered that an artificial breeding program was begun in 2005 to preserve the dwindling species. Wood rats raised in Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida were released on Key Largo to increase the population and prevent its extinction. After repeated attempts, however, the rats would invariably end up being killed by the local feral cats that also inhabit the island. The program was finally scrapped as a lost cause in 2012.
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• In the span of a valleybits@msn.com single year, Lyall’s cats had email: Fax: 760-320-1630 discovered and then decimated the entire population of the new wren species, which was now completely extinct. Lyall may have been the only human to have ever seen the bird alive in real life.
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• Marion Island off the coast of South Africa is a forbidding and rocky landscape with a harsh climate and a lot of volcanic activity. Two cats released on this island in 1949 resulted in over 2,000 surviving descendants 25 years later. The cats had been brought in to control the rodent population, as the invasive rats and mice • Lyall wasContact your Tidbits representative an amateur ornithologist, so heimmediately with changes or corrections. (escapees from previous ship landings) were examined each bird and was excited 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 ADVERTISING PROOF carefully Office: affecting the island's TUES., bird population. The cats to discover examples of an unknown species Support our MAR. 28 al Changes DUE: brought the rodent population under control, 5:00 of p.m.. wren. He sent several preserved bodies Advertisers and FREE w carefully. Double check: the Phone Number(s) Spelling Prices Hours but also decimated birds. After a concerted Quick offLane to ornithologists, who agreed that it was Shop Local Valley effort and at enormous expense, with all cats were1/4 pg. • Full Color • 13x Discount Stores t your Tidbits representative immediately changes or corrections. finally removed from the ecosystem by 1991. Feb. 2, 2020 Vol. 16 - No. 6 Property of AdVenture Media, Inc.
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