Thread: The Morgan Score

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

Gareth Morgan is full of shit about cats.
Even the DOC biologists were mystified at his claims that feral cats were decimating native birds, and publicly disagreed with him. If what he was saying was true then Fiordland national park would be full of feral cats. It is not. The reason why is that cats are natural predators of rodents, and wild cats live on the edge of human habitation because there is a good supply of rats and mice there. They are purpose built for rodent hunting. They take birds as targets of opportunity, but a cat dropped into the bush with lots of native birds and no rodent supply would starve to death quickly.

The man has done nothing of note. Why would you take his word for anything?

Just came across a most sensible post that I will quote.