ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Agreeableness, Toxoplasmosis, Cat Communication
28 Oct 2016
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More cats than dogs as pets in us homes. In us 2009, 94 million cats, 78 million dogs. Your cat is actually a friendly neighborhood serial killer . Cats are particularly damaging in island ecosystems that are home to species found nowhere else on earth. A lot of island birds and mammals evolved in the absence of cat- size predators. They nest on the ground and have no defenses against an invasive species that plays with and then decapitates its victims. Cats have endangered or caused the extinction of birds species in hawaii, australia, new zealand. 40% of nz"s land birds are extinct, and 37% of the survivors are endangered. Ban didn"t go through, but almost did because they want to save their wildlife. 70% of americans say they are dog people . Cat owners typically say they are both cat and dog people, but dog owners typically only like dogs. Personality traits of dog and cat people-
