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Giant carnivorous mice threaten world's greatest seabird colony

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LDragonFire

posted on May, 19 2008 @ 12:57 PM
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Giant carnivorous mice threaten world's greatest seabird colony


www.guardian.co.uk

Whalers who visited remote Gough Island in the South Atlantic 150 years ago described a prelapsarian world where millions of birds lived without predators and where a man could barely walk because he would trip over their nests. Today the British-owned island, described as the most important seabird colony in the world, still hosts 22 breeding bird species and is a world heritage site.

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LDragonFire

posted on May, 19 2008 @ 12:57 PM
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This is just weird mice jumped ship 150 years ago now they grow 2 to 3 times their original size and have turned carivorous to the point of threatening all the bird species on the Island


What is horrifying ornithgologists is that the humble house mouse which landed on Gough has somehow evolved to two or even three times the size of an ordinary British house mice, and instead of being a vegetarian, eating insects and seeds, has adapted itself to become a carnivore, eating albatross, petrel and shearwater chicks alive in their nests. They are now believed to be the largest mice found anywhere in the world.

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More proof of evolution? This is crazy.

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