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A hidden toll: Australia's cats kill almost 650 million reptiles a year

  • Written by John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University
A feral cat snapped by a remote camera in the wild.NT government, Author provided

Cats take a hefty toll on Australia’s reptiles – killing an estimated 649 million of them every year, including threatened species – according to our new research published in the journal Wildlife Research.

This follows the earlier discovery that cats...

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