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

10,000 Birds

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 But they don’t live in North America.

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EU Bans Battery Cages

Critter News

Others have arranged for barns or other free-range systems, but the law now clearly reserves hens a seat at a nest. Duncan has been studying the effects of battery cages on hens since the early 1970s, when he worked at the Poultry Research Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. Duncan, Ph.D., Duncan, Ph.D.,