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The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised

posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the humans-aren't-number-one-by-a-mile? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:56PM (1 child)

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Thursday May 04 2017, @12:56PM (#504298)

    @ idiot king:
    grrrrrRRRRR
    *BARK*BARK*BARK*
    GRRRRRRRrrrrr
    you come around here, it will be a race to see if it is me or my dogs who bite you first...
    dog damn, i hates me a dog hater...
    not sure they qualify as human beans...

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  • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Friday May 05 2017, @03:19AM

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Friday May 05 2017, @03:19AM (#504660) Journal

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCzRzOfj5vE [youtube.com]

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