Did you know?
Rats are a very invasive species. They were not distributed equally on the planet and some parts of the world they only reached by ship in the last centuries. Rats have contributed a lot to the extinction of species in these new regions. They prey for example on eggs of forestbirds or seabirds that have no usual predators on this island. Therefore the birds have no fear of predators at all and are an easy target.
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