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No Jokes About the Nine Lives of Island's Cats
In Marion and Prince Edward Islands an ecological crisis began after rats arrived with South African weather crews. Cats were released in 1948 to curb rats, but they decimated seabird colonies and multiplied to about 1.2 million birds by 1976. A feline virus reduced the population, yet experts fear a rebound as immune generations could stem control efforts.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Marion
Prince Edward Islands
Rudi van Aarde
Pretoria University
Mammal Research Institute
John Skinner