Faulty science spreads lies about cats and their impact on wildlife

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For the past week, the mainstream press has widely reported on a paper in which professional wildlife biologists associated with the Smithsonian Institution and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claim that domesticated cats kill as many as 3.7 billion birds and more than 15 billion small mammals each year in the United States. The authors of the paper tried to assess the behavior of “owned” and “un-owned” cats, whichwould include feral, free roaming and indoor/outdoor cats.


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Published on February 07, 2013 22:00
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