We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually.
What in the ever loving fuck??? Where did they get these numbers? I didn’t read the whole paper but I couldn’t find it scanning.
My outdoor local ecosystem of skunks, raccoons, rats and squirrels are flourishing. Are cats killing that many birds? I don’t have a cat, but my neighbor’s cats killed a couple birds so the neighbor put little bells on all the cats so they can’t sneak up on shit anymore.
Funny side story: ChatGPT 3.5 refuses to recognize Palestine as living under apartheid. If you ask it what are the conditions of apartheid, it will list them clearly and use South Africa & Jim Crow U.S. as examples. If you ask it if Palestine fits the same criteria it just laid out, it will agree, but will refuse to say it definitively, only responding with a million different variants of “it’s a complex issue.”
AI bros should have to do prison time with hard labor.