Website review: From stowaway to supersize predator...
marymar discovered this in Birds
•4 reviews since May 19, 2008
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•guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/20/wildli...
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marymar discovered 2 months ago- From the page: "For tens of thousands of years, the birds of Gough Island lived unmolested, without predators on a remote outcrop in the south Atlantic. Today, the British-owned island, described as the home of the most important seabird colony in the world, still hosts 22 breeding species and is a world heritage site. But as a terrible consequence of the first whalers making landfall there 150 years ago, Gough has become the stage for one of nature's great horror shows." Shudder-inducing story of another consequence of human carelessness.
- onley1 rated 2 months ago
- From stowaway to supersize predator: the mice eating rare seabirds alive
well, if they're eaten alive, OF COURSE they'd be rare!
thank you, thank you folks, i'm here all week.... ;) - From stowaway to supersize predator: the mice eating rare seabirds alive
- smebro rated 2 months ago
- C'mon Albatross, get your evolution on or die... or of course we will act as custodians and eradicate these mice before the possibly defunct form of the albatrosses are eliminated.
- Fencesandwindows rated 2 months ago
- "Mice stowed away on the whaling boats jumped ship and have since multiplied to 700,000 or more on an island of about 25 square miles. What is horrifying ornithologists is that the British house mouse has somehow evolved, growing to up to three times the size of ordinary domestic house mice, and instead of surviving on a diet of insects and seeds, has adapted itself to become a carnivore, eating albatross, petrel and shearwater chicks alive in their nests. They are now believed to be the largest mice in the world." Holy crap. Monster carnivorous mice.
