Humans Driving Massive Animal Extinction

Edit Voa News 25 Jul 2014
Rosanne Skirble ... Co-author Hillary Young studies what happens when the big animals disappear ...   ... Rapid decline. Rather quickly the fenced parcels fill with grasses and shrubs, providing cover for rats which overwhelm the area and are vectors for human disease ... Small mammals, such as mice (shown here, the broad headed mouse, Zelotomys hildagardae) benefit, and often cause nuisances to humans by vectoring diseases or destroying crops ... ....
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