• @[email protected]OP
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    267 months ago

    They were already a pest for researchers in the 1940s, so five domestic cats were introduced. By the 1970s, there were around 2,000 feral cats on the island, killing half a million seabirds per year. The cats were eliminated by introducing a feline flu virus and hunting down any survivors.

    Looks like they started going the Simpsons route but stopped. Who knows what they would have introduced by now?

    • Lath
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      67 months ago

      You know how tigers have patterns on the back of their head and ears to appear bigger than they are?
      I think these people might have brought back whatever hunted tigers.

    • @nogooduser
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      27 months ago

      Why the hell did they think that the cats would only hunt the pest that they wanted them to hunt?

      • JohnEdwa
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        27 months ago

        Humans had to learn that the hard way in multiple places, unfortunately.