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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Again it would depend on where those are—threatened species are disproportionately located on those islands I mentioned. Furthermore it doesn’t assign any causation to cat predation.

  Maybe cats are a serious conservation threat on continental areas but I’m just saying I haven’t seen evidence of this.

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here’s a study from Oklahoma State University specifically talking about the effects of mainland cats in contrast to island cats:

    “Our review shows overwhelming evidence that, beyond causing island extinctions, where there were no native predators, and massive numbers of mainland wildlife deaths, cats can exert multiple types of harmful impacts on mainland wildlife species that are reflected at the population level,”

    news.okstate.edu/…/me-ouch-the-impact-of-cats-on-…

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks, this seems more in line with what I was wondering. but I’ll need to see if I can get access to the full paper. The example given in Australia actually fits my hypothesis since they historically lacked felid predators. So I’d like to see the full list to see the location and severity of the effects they’re reporting.

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      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Here you go:

        esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…/fee.1633

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