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  2. Cat predation on wildlife - Wikipedia

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    Cats on the urban edge of the city of Cape Town kill more than 200,000 animals in the Table Mountain National Park annually. Reptiles constituted 50% of killed prey, but only 17% of prey brought home; mammals constituted 24% of prey, but 54% of prey brought home. Non-native species accounted for only 6% of animals killed by cats from the urban ...

  3. Rodenticide - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] This phenomenon of poison shyness is the rationale for poisons that kill only after multiple doses. Besides being directly toxic to the mammals that ingest them, including dogs, cats, and humans, many rodenticides present a secondary poisoning risk to animals that hunt or scavenge the dead corpses of rats. [6]

  4. List of deadliest animals to humans - Wikipedia

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    Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year 1 Mosquitoes: 1,000,000 [a] Mosquitoes 750,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 2 Humans 475,000 Humans (homicide) 437,000 Snakes 50,000 3 Snakes: 50,000 Snakes 100,000 Dogs 25,000 4 Dogs: 25,000 [b] Dogs 35,000 Tsetse flies 10,000 5 Tsetse flies: 10,000 [c] Freshwater ...

  5. Puerto Rico's famous stray cats will be removed from ... - AOL

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    Some are believed to be descendants of colonial-era cats, while others were brought to the capital by legendary San Juan Mayor Felisa Rincón de Gautier to kill rats in the mid-20th century.

  6. Vermin - Wikipedia

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    The term "vermin" is used to refer to a wide scope of organisms, including rodents (such as rats), cockroaches, termites, bed bugs, [4] stoats, sables.. Historically, in the 16th and 17th century, the expression also became used as a derogatory term associated with groups of persons typically plagued by vermin, namely beggars and vagabonds, and more generally the poor.

  7. Animal suicide - Wikipedia

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    Infection with Toxoplasma gondii has been shown to alter the behavior of mice and rats in ways thought to increase the rodents’ chances of being preyed upon by cats. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Infected rodents show a reduction in their innate aversion to cat odors; while uninfected mice and rats will generally avoid areas marked with cat urine or with cat ...

  8. New virus that causes ‘staggering disease’ discovered in US ...

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    A disease which can kill cats, both domestic and wild, has been discovered for the first time in the US. A variant of the rustrela virus-- related to the wider-known rubella virus which causes a ...

  9. Animal attack - Wikipedia

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    Animal bites are the most common form of injury from animal attacks. The U.S. estimated annual count of animal bites is 250,000 human bites, 1 to 2 million dog bites, 400,000 cat bites, and 45,000 bites from snakes. [2] Bites from skunks, horses, squirrels, rats, rabbits, pigs, and monkeys may be up to one percent of bite injuries.

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