Sentences with phrase «feral cat densities»

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According to Dr Legge, «As well as strategically targeting areas for cat control in bushland to maximise the conservation outcomes, we also need to address the issue of feral cats living in heavily urbanised areas, where their densities can be 30 times greater than in natural environments.

«This new science shows that the density of feral cats in Australia is lower than it is in North America and Europe, and yet feral cats have been devastating for our wildlife,» said Mr Gregory Andrews, Australia's Threatened Species Commissioner.

Feral cat populations» density and locations are not contingent on individuals intentionally providing food for the cats.1, 2 Studies have shown that other sources of food are always available — including food scraps in household trash and municipal garbage facilities.3 Cats are territorial and bond to their surroundicats.1, 2 Studies have shown that other sources of food are always available — including food scraps in household trash and municipal garbage facilities.3 Cats are territorial and bond to their surroundiCats are territorial and bond to their surroundings.

When coyotes inhabit an area, densities of feral cats and other mesopredators are much lower.

They are effective predators that mainly hunt small or medium - sized vertebrates (Fitzgerald and Turner 2000), and while the density of feral cats is directly correlated with prey abundance (Genovesi et al. 1995; Edwards et al. 2001), the population density of free - ranging house cats is more reflective of human density (due to the provision of supplementary food) than that of their prey (Sims et al. 2008).

But, for instance, the densities of rats in Baltimore alleys prowled by feral cats is «remarkably stable,» according to research conducted in 2004 which compared rat and cat estimates from a half century earlier.

Given the density of Nova Scotia's feral and community cat population, 70 percent of the 40,000 pounds of food is cat food, while the remaining 30 percent is dog food.

What Legge meant by that, the University of Queensland summary of her findings explained, was that «in addition to strategic cat control in bushland areas,» where cats have already long been massacred as rapidly as they can be found, «there is a need to address feral cats in heavily urbanized areas where their population density could be 30 times higher than in natural environments.»

We argue that the behavioural capacity of feral cats to undertake long - distance excursions to exploit transient hunting opportunities results in significantly higher total predator pressure on prey, and helps to explain how low - density cat populations could have large impacts on small - mammal abundance at landscape scales.

Legge also found that «cat densities were the same both inside and outside conservation reserves, such as national parks,» despite several decades of all - out efforts to eradicate feral cats from protected habitat.

McGregor, H. W., Legge, S., Potts, J., Jones, M. H. & Johnson, C. N. Density and home range of feral cats in north - western Australia.

We've been able to come up with good estimates of their density across the landscape, and we've been able to find out how some of the tools that we have at our disposal like fire management and removal of feral herbivores, how those tools affect the hunting abilities of cats.