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		<title>NAME THOSE CATS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Cobb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 2007 Bet you don&#8217;t know the names of the middle two species. Answer here (in the caption).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=z-letter.com&amp;blog=7354612&amp;post=277&amp;subd=zletter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>March 2007</p>
<p><a href="http://jeb.biologists.org/content/vol210/issue4/images/medium/jexbio2104cvf.gif" target="_blank">Bet you don&#8217;t know the names of the middle two species.</a> Answer <a href="http://jeb.biologists.org/content/vol210/issue4/cover.shtml" target="_blank">here</a> (in the caption).</p>
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		<title>MACQUARIE CATS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Cobb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 2007 Macquarie is a tiny island in the Southern Ocean which has been plagued with feral cats, introduced in the 19th century, and which killed many nesting birds, including petrels and albatross. The Australian government was able to eradicate the cats, and &#8230; <a href="http://z-letter.com/2009/04/20/macquarie-cats/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=z-letter.com&amp;blog=7354612&amp;post=227&amp;subd=zletter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>March 2007</p>
<p>Macquarie is a tiny island in the Southern Ocean which has been plagued with feral cats, introduced in the 19th century, and which killed many nesting birds, including petrels and albatross. The Australian government was able to eradicate the cats, and in 2004 endangered grey petrels bred there for the first time in a century and there were hopes that the critically endangered blue petrel might return. A success story? Not quite. With no predators the rabbit population has exploded, and the voracious lagomorphs have eaten loads of grass on the petrel breeding sites, weakening the soil structure and leading to dramatic erosion, thereby threatening the bird population&#8230;</p>
<p>Independent article <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2287010.ece" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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