Domestic cats (Felis catus) are beloved companions for many individuals, however they’re additionally invasive predators which have been linked to quite a few birds, mammals and reptiles going extinct. Their consuming habits are of curiosity to ecologists, to find out the chance these cats pose to endangered species. Writing in Nature Communications, Lepczyk et al. report a world evaluation of the weight-reduction plan of free-ranging home cats — and discover that they aren’t choosy eaters (C. A. Lepczyk et al. Nature Commun. 14, 7809; 2023).
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