What affects us affects cats
A new study which involved a team of scientists going through 400 years-worth of literature and visiting and measuring dodo specimens around the UK came to the conclusion that it was invasive species such as cats and rats and others rather than Dutch sailors – who hunted the dodo for its meat – which …
I will declare my interest at the outset which is that I don’t like the domestic cat being branded an invasive species. That’s because humans brand the domestic cat as an invasive species but it is humans who made the domestic cat an invasive species. And humans are the world’s top invasive species, aren’t …
The Independent newspaper reports on a study which concluded that a big-headed invasive ant species has taken hold at 1,600 locations from East Africa to southern American states. It’s a remarkable story of an invasive species. Please note that species of all kinds become invasive because humans carry them to their new homes. We …
My thanks to The Times report of September 5, 2023.
It is automatically assumed that domestic cats wherever they live are invasive species. For example, an article written by Catherine D. Mizerany on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says that domestic cats are the ‘very definition of an invasive species’. But let’s analyse it and see if they really are. We argue that the logical …
There is a confusing (to me) and complex interplay between the feral cats on the Australian continent, the rabbits upon which they prey, and the conservation of precious native mammals. European rabbits were introduced to Australia in the 18th century. European cats were also introduced to the continent at a similar time (as were …
Polish scientists at the Polish Academy of Sciences have decided to place the domestic cat on the database of invasive species in Poland. The domestic cat is, indeed, an invasive species in Poland as it is in the UK and the USA, for example. But these other countries don’t OFFICIALLY recognise that fact because …
I’ve recently been doing research on whether owning a caracal is illegal in Australia (I shouldn’t have bothered). It was very hard research because the documentation provided by Australian administrations was poor. What I found was a continual reference to “pests” and “invasive species” or “alien species” or “non-native species”. To Australians non-native species …
