Temporal and Space-Use Changes by Rats in Response to Predation by Feral Cats in an Urban Ecosystem

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, September 2018

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Cats are actually...

User RandomInternetNobody, in the badassanimals subreddit, 31 Aug 2026

Cats are actually [terrible](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/ecology-and-evolution/articles/10.3389/fevo.2018.00146/full…

>Nonsense - **cats prey less, not more, when they are given...

User Hudson9700, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 31 Aug 2026

>Nonsense - **cats prey less, not more, when they are given food** \~30% less. Still enough for them to slaughter billions of…

See: North America isn’t a small island in the Pacific...

User Hudson9700, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 31 Aug 2026

See: North America isn’t a small island in the Pacific Ocean. Cats have not existed here for millions of years. It’s our…

>There would literally be hantavirus everywhere if we just...

User Hudson9700, in the Today I Learned (TIL) subreddit, 31 Aug 2026

>There would literally be hantavirus everywhere if we just let rats do their…

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