There are differing opinions on cats’ personalities and behaviour: They’re affectionate, they’re aloof, they love you, they hate you.
Then there’s the undeniable fact of what they become when left to roam free outside: indiscriminate, stone-cold killers.
A new study has found cats roaming free prey upon almost any animal, reptile, insect, and amphibian around the world – their hunting so prolific and so successful, the authors found, that it poses a legitimate threat to global biodiversity.
“What’s shocking is just the indiscriminate nature of their hunting,” said Christopher Lepczyk, the paper’s lead author and an ecology professor at Alabama’s Auburn University.
“If there is a
