Date published: 2007/09/05
The BBC says:
Taking your dog for a walk could be having an impact on local birdlife, a study suggests.
An Australian team found dog-walking was prompting birds to take flight, causing numbers to plummet by 41%.
The researchers, writing in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, said the birds were fleeing because they viewed the dogs as potential predators.
Charity Birdlife International said the longer-term effects of the dogs' presence now needed to be looked at.
More pathetic "research". Birds don't particularly like humans trotting around either, or anything that could be construed as a predator. Who would have thought it, eh. This just seems to be more of the anti-mammal hatred that the bird community constantly foments.
_________________________________________________________
All material not included from other sources is copyright cambridge2000.com.
For further information or questions email: info [at] cambridge2000 [dot] com
(replace "[at]" with "@" and "[dot]" with ".").