• trolske@feddit.de
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    4 months ago

    As a “professional ecologist” you should be aware of the concept of “landscape of fear”.
    Non-consumptive effects have an equally strong (some argue an even stronger) effect on prey populations compared to consumptive effects.
    Letting domesticated cats roam freely creates an unnaturally high predation pressure in the area and has more effects on the local wildlife than just killing it.