Cat wars the devastating consequences of a cuddly killer
In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The obituary of the Stephens Island wren
- America's dairy land and its killing fields
- The rise of bird lovers and cat lovers : the perfect storm
- The science of decline
- The zombie maker : cats as agents of disease
- Taking aim at the problem
- Trap-neuter-return : a palatable solution that is no solution at all
- A landscape with fewer free-ranging cats : better for cats, better for birds, better for people
- What kind of nature awaits?
