Who even uses cat? Use less or tail.
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Worst birdkiller is Musk
Keeping your cats indoors won't solve anything. Housecats aren't destroying the bird population, feral cats are. If you want to help, volunteer with your local vet or animal control to capture, spay/neuter, then re-release stray cats.
Not true. Pet cats are about a third of the problem, according to a 2013 nature paper. Feral populations vary a lot by location - some places have almost no ferals but lots of pet cats.
"About a third of the problem" So, not the primary cause (or solution.)
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2380
"We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality."
The article also states the following regarding more popular studies in the media involving pet cats: "The magnitude of mortality they cause in mainland areas remains speculative, with large-scale estimates based on non-systematic analyses and little consideration of scientific data"
That study's been going around for years in the media, but mainly because it's sensational. If you actually read the article, I'd hardly say it's very convincing, or very accurate. Also, this.
Existing estimates of mortality from cat predation are speculative and not based on scientific data13,14,15,16 or, at best, are based on extrapolation of results from a single study18. In addition, no large-scale mortality estimates exist for mammals, which form a substantial component of cat diets.
I read it, it's from 2013
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It will solve for your cat staying not dead, not shitting in other people's yards, and not fucking other cats.
Maybe, depending on where you live. But that's not what we're discussing.
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What's up with comms towers? High-voltage AM antennas are not that abundant anymore. Are birds getting cooked close to high-power transmitters? Shot to avoid interference with crucial military infrastructure? Is 5G real?
Well the image claims to be based on data from 2015, so no 5G was not real at that time.
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I def have more penguins than windows in my house.
This reminds me of the anti-wind-energy arguments about the turbines killing many birds...
On a serious note, the problem with wind turbines is not the total number of birds they strike but the species. Larger birds of prey seem particularly susceptible. Tough this risk can be easily mitigated by not placing the wind turbines directly in their primary habitat or migration paths.
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I know a lot of people don't like Andrew Lloyd Webber but killing yourself is a bit much
Linux isn't even on the list but neither is mac. Makes you think
UNIX-like superiority
because killing birds isn't a task of the kernel, it's the task of a userspace utility part of the coreutils
/usr/bin/stoneThe one for appending files to the standard output, or the one for murdering unresponsive children?
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3.5 billion birds are killed in North America per year? I didn't know anywhere near that number even existed.
Wikipedia says there are about 7.5 million square miles in the US and Canada, so that's over 400 birds killed per square mile, per year, on average.
That's amazing, no?
There are more than 8 billion chickens slaughtered every year in the US alone, to give some perspective.
Misconception. Birdkiller Georg has 3 billion dead birds a year and is also known as New York City
not if we have anything to say about it
-Cats
Is the plural for CAT cable really Cats and not CAT cables?
Guess it is like mouses for more than one computer mouse.
TIL.
Why is the bar for Windows as long as the bar for cats?
The area isnt the same though.
As are the numbers
I see no lies