A Michael Broad Blog
This study came to the conclusion that TNR volunteers managing a feral cat colony on Tokunoshima Island might cause what the scientists call ‘hyper-predation’ of local native species. What they mean is that the cats are helped by people feeding them. They think that by feeding the cats there is more predation of native …
Scientists are meant to be in the enviable position of receiving respect because they are seen as being intelligent, unbiased and objective. This is not always the case as is highlighted by this story. On the African continent, Western sport hunters justify their behaviour by saying that it benefits wildlife conservation. The Campaign to …
Are jaguarundis nocturnal? No, they are not exclusively nocturnal. Jaguarundis have been recorded moving around and hunting at all times of the day and night (sources: 1, 2 and 3). However, it appears that this strange looking wild cat prefers to hunt by day (diurnal). The cat’s uniform coat indicates a ‘more diurnal lifestyle’ …
As dogs cannot tell the difference between red and green they have great difficulty in detecting a ginger cat on a lawn or against any other green background such as even foliage. This makes red tabbies on lawns invisible to them.
Australian Ornithologist, Prof John Woinarski, is scamming the world’s media with his biased study about cat predation in Australia. It is all over the online new media. Almost every major online newspaper has an article based on Woinarski’s ‘study’. Here is one example: Cats kill 1 million Australian birds a day, study shows (the …
It’s about time that scientific studies about domestic cats were written in plain, straightforward English so that cat owners can read them and learn from them. There seems to be an desire by scientists to make their reporting of studies and surveys as unintelligible as possible to non-scientists in an effort to make it …
You have heard the message of Cat Wars, a new book by the ornithologist Peter Marra writing in conjunction with Chris Santella. Dr Marra is the director of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Centre in Washington. He said: “There has never been a book like this that really brought together this science in a way …
The full title of the book published by Princeton University Press is: Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. The authors are Dr Peter P Marra, head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and Chris Santella, a freelance writer who was probably employed to make sure the grammar was okay because poor …
