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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

10,000 Birds

You know the famous novel about rabbits , wherein among other things the traveling bunnies find themselves in a warren where everyone is well fed and happy, and that’s a problem. There is bird version of this in the Everglades. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

So New Zealand began the process of clearing islands of mammals, using poison, trapping and shooting. The island was being ravaged by rabbits that were destroying every last tree, threatening the future of three lizards and two snakes.