In a report that scaled adult internal surveys and commander studies to inhabitant dimensions, scientists from a Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and a Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in a United States — both a pet Fluffies that spend partial of a day outdoor and a unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it — kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, many of them local mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like a Norway rat.
The estimated kill rates are dual to 4 times aloft than mankind total formerly bandied about, and position a domestic cat as one of a singular biggest human-linked threats to wildlife in
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