Sentences with phrase «marsh rabbit mortality»
[11](USFWS misrepresents this, too, in its Predator Management Plan, once again omitting the number of mortalities: «Free - roaming domestic cat predation accounted for 50 percent of adult Lower Keys marsh rabbit mortality during radio telemetry studies...» [9]-RRB-
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ABC misrepresents both Forys» work and the USFWS plan by transforming those 13 marsh rabbits into «50 percent of mortality of [this] endangered species.»
«Although habitat loss is responsible for the original decline of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit, high mortality from cats may be the greatest current threat to the persistence of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit [4].»
Lower Keys Marsh Rabbit ABC's claim about cats being responsible for half the mortality of marsh rabbits doesn't actually correspond with what's in the USFWS plan:
[FN36] The species could go extinct within 2 or 3 decades if current mortality rates continue, and the greatest threat to the Lower Keys marsh rabbit now appears to be predation.