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Our latest research reveals that the ecological "pawprint" of domestic dogs is much greater than previously realised.
Using the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, we counted how many species are negatively affected by dogs, assessed the prevalence of different types of impacts, and identified regions with the greatest number of affected species.
Dogs are third-most-damaging mammal
We found that dogs are implicated in the extinction of at least 11 species, including the Hawaiian Rail and the Tonga Ground Skink. Dogs are also a known or potential threat to 188 threatened species worldwide: 96 mammal, 78 bird, 22 reptile and three amphibian species. This includes 30, two of which are classed as "possibly extinct".
These numbers place dogs in the number three spot after cats and rodents as the world's most damaging invasive mammalian predators.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:35AM (2 children)
Cattle are not predators, otherwise I am quite sure they'd be way up there on the list. Humans are not predators either, we are pretty obviously parasites on the planet, fsck'n up anything and everything we come into contact with.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @09:58AM (1 child)
Since you feel that way, the obvious solution is: kill yourself.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Friday May 05 2017, @03:13AM
Nah I'd rather hang out and be the bane of your existence, more fun that way :)
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