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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. And I think he was speaking only of our American Kitties not the Wildcat of Africa. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.

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Remotest Endemic Birds

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Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. Saint Helena Island, situated in the south Atlantic ocean between the continents of Africa and South America, is one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

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