{"id":3304,"date":"2013-01-29T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2013-01-29T19:23:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T23:23:14","slug":"are-domestic-cats-an-anthropogenic-force-of-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/are-domestic-cats-an-anthropogenic-force-of-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Are domestic cats an anthropogenic force (of destruction, and is that redundant)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/30\/science\/that-cuddly-kitty-of-yours-is-a-killer.html?hp&amp;_r=1&amp;\">NY Times<\/a> today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/30\/science\/that-cuddly-kitty-of-yours-is-a-killer.html?hp&amp;_r=1&amp;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2013\/01\/30\/science\/30cats-span\/30cats-span-articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it \u2014 kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">The estimated kill rates are two to four times higher than mortality figures previously bandied about, and position the domestic cat as one of the single greatest human-linked threats to wildlife in the nation. More birds and mammals die at the mouths of cats, the report said, than from automobile strikes, pesticides and poisons, collisions with skyscrapers and windmills and other so-called anthropogenic causes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times today Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it \u2014 kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/are-domestic-cats-an-anthropogenic-force-of-destruction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are domestic cats an anthropogenic force (of destruction, and is that redundant)?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}