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Thought experiment

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If you put some animals (both wild and domestic) on an island and left them there to roam free and we come back after a few years who would survive. They are much more independent and still behave similarly to wild cats they are still pets and rely on humans to survive. Would suprisngly rodents and small animals.

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A True Mouse Anecdote -- does anyone have a similar story?

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I read that if you scale up a mouse to human size and you look at body-lengths per second, they are moving at 152.6 They are not genetically so dissimilar to humans, sharing a lot of our genetic material. I even met a feral racoon at like 3 or 4 am. mph (not sure why so precise since they vary in size and speed).

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few. But in the case of Harris Hawks , this mentality jumps the species barrier and they form a strong bond with their human partners, readily accepting their non-avian hunting companions as members of their pack.

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

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He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place.