On 05/03/2017 09:57, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Graeme Wall
wrote:

Looks like it's worse that I remembered:

Estimates of how many creatures are killed by cats each year vary
significantly. The most recent figures are from the Mammal Society,
which estimates that the UK's cats catch up to 275 million prey items a
year, of which 55 million are birds.

RSPB

The "More or Less" Radio 4 programme tried to find out the figures for this
a while ago. Their conclusion was that the figures various organisations
bandied about were all wild guesstimates based on presumptions that suited
them.

In effect, a chain of people who all took a figure from someone else,
manipulated or misunderstood it, and then 'published' it for others to
repeat the process.


Doesn't surprise me.


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Graeme Wall
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