Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. But Mao had apparently never conceived that sparrows and their chicks fed on insects – insects which, in the absence of their natural predators, destroyed the next year’s rice crop. Millions of Chinese died in the ensuing famine.
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