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EdwardDiego
814 days ago
Reminder that a cat named Tibbles once rendered an entire species of New Zealand wren extinct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall%27s_wren
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Nextgrid
814 days ago
The article itself seems to disprove this? It wasn't all caused by a single cat.
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bombcar
814 days ago
All Tibbles had to do was eat the
last
one (or the second to last).
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EdwardDiego
814 days ago
Tibbles was the first cat brought to the island, and she had kittens, hence the feral cats.
Tibbles didn't kill them all, but bringing Tibbles doomed the species.
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