Cats have been related to widespread predation of wildlife.
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Cats – the playful and affectionate pet nuzzling an adoring proprietor – have been unmasked by the revered science journal Nature as an “indiscriminate predator” killing “primarily any sort of animal that they will seize at some life stage”.
The authors declare that the research, A global synthesis and assessment of free-ranging domestic cat diet, revealed this month, is the “most complete” perception into the “world’s most profitable and extensively distributed invasive predators … and probably the most important for any species worldwide”.
Examining each feral and home cats’ abdomen contents from knowledge stretching from the late nineteenth century to up to date analysis reveals a feline killing frenzy driving many species to extinction.
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