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• Cats kill 2.4 billion birds annually

  In conservation biology, Science Spotlight, zoology / 31 January 2013 / 2 comments

  

  Domestic cats in the United States kill some 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals each year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles according to the New York Times in a...

   

• Scientists turn to social networking and citizen scientists to help keep track of amphibians

  In conservation biology, zoology / 8 June 2011 / 0 comments

  

  Any adventurer, hiker or backyard naturalist with a camera can help scientists survey and hopefully save the world’s amphibians thanks to a new social networking site that links “citizen scientists” with researchers tracking the decline of amphibians around the globe.