What’s Happening When Mittens Find Their Way Out? Comment on Christopher Lepczyk’s “Epochs of Evolution and Disappearance”

More scientific evidence has surfaced to show that while Mittens may be your sweet angel, letting her roam outside is also a big threat to biodiversity.

What’s the big deal? There are a lot of scientific studies that have been done for more than 100 years.

What are people saying? Christopher Lepczyk is a wildlife ecologist at Auburn University and a co-author of the paper, and spoke with NPR to help expand on the paper’s findings.

They are eating insects and other arthropods in their diet. We know that they eat insects. That wasn’t necessarily new, but we didn’t really have an idea that they were eating so many things. Most of the scientists who have done these studies in the past didn’t care about insects ortaxonomism, so that’s a concern for us.

It seems that at some point, we began to get more and more individual species picked up in our study, and it kind of seemed almost endless.

Does a cat eat anything? The answer to cats’ environmental problems lies in instincts and instincts, or how cats are born to eat whatever they want

When you see something like a whole lot of juveniles hatch out of eggs, it’s an opportunity for predators to obtain pretty easy … prey. It’s probably not surprised if we contextualize it that way.

That doesn’t mean that a cat won’t hurt the environment. You know, a lot of times we really don’t observe what cats eat, but that doesn’t mean they’re not actually eating something outside.

Since they were domesticated in the Middle East nearly 10,000 years ago, cats have traveled pretty much everywhere humans have. To thrive in so many different environments, felines became opportunists. While some animals, like pandas and koalas, stick to a limited menu of specific foods, “cats are not diet specialists,” says Marra. They are just trying to make ends meet.

My cat slept through Marra’s video call, which was barely out of frame, ignorant of the ecological damage she had caused. Many doting cat parents feel the same about their own kitty, because she is a sweet, perfect angel baby. Could the solution to this environmental problem … really be to get rid of them? Marra continues, “cats are part of our culture.” When we begin to talk about saving another life, it becomes confusing.

Don’t let their fluff fool you: Your cat was built for murder. Felines, no matter how chonky, eepy, or boopable, are remarkably adaptable obligate carnivores, down to eat just about anything that fits in their mouth.