- cross-posted to:
- linuxmemes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- linuxmemes@lemmy.world
Don’t blame cats
Those aren’t birds, that’s chicken. Dummy.
Don’t need windows if you live in a basement (and use Linux).
This reminds me of the anti-wind-energy arguments about the turbines killing many birds…
I pointed this out to people who complain constantly about wind turbines. “Ban windows!” They love that.
I’m still not calling it GNU
I know a lot of people don’t like Andrew Lloyd Webber but killing yourself is a bit much
On a serious note, the problem with wind turbines is not the total number of birds they strike but the species. Larger birds of prey seem particularly susceptible. Tough this risk can be easily mitigated by not placing the wind turbines directly in their primary habitat or migration paths.
I was going to say, I doubt your pet tabby is killing any California condors at any appreciable rate.
Amazing how easy it is to bias people with data though.
3.5 billion birds are killed in North America per year? I didn’t know anywhere near that number even existed.
Wikipedia says there are about 7.5 million square miles in the US and Canada, so that’s over 400 birds killed per square mile, per year, on average.
That’s amazing, no?
not if we have anything to say about it
-Cats
I misread it as “Widows” and got a bit concerned for a second.
Probably plenty of bird widows in the world
how in the world are cats so good at killing something that can literally fly
And simultaneously can’t find the piece of ham I dropped in front of their nose.
They’re built to kill. Crazy good reflexes and eyesight, amazing jump height, claws that grab hold of tree branches, feathers, and skin very nicely. There are a bunch of strays where I live, and they are murdering machines when they don’t have a bowl of food plopped in front of them twice a day at their leisure.
Also whenthry do. Cats like to play
The reflexes of cats are insane and faster then a snake can bite. This video is a little demonstration for that
Patience mostly I think. At least with rodent they smell a trail and then just sit there for hours and hours until one walks near enough.
The only reason why cats aren’t hunting us down right now is because we’re too big to be prey. I read somewhere a long time ago that domestic cats have one of the highest predation success rate in the mammalian class. Meaning once they choose to actually try to hunt something they usually get it.
To be fair they are good at choosing WHO to hunt
Why is the bar for Windows as long as the bar for cats?
Because it’s by area, not length.
Keeping your cats indoors won’t solve anything. Housecats aren’t destroying the bird population, feral cats are. If you want to help, volunteer with your local vet or animal control to capture, spay/neuter, then re-release stray cats.
Not true. Pet cats are about a third of the problem, according to a 2013 nature paper. Feral populations vary a lot by location - some places have almost no ferals but lots of pet cats.
That study’s been going around for years in the media, but mainly because it’s sensational. If you actually read the article, I’d hardly say it’s very convincing, or very accurate. Also, this.
Existing estimates of mortality from cat predation are speculative and not based on scientific data13,14,15,16 or, at best, are based on extrapolation of results from a single study18. In addition, no large-scale mortality estimates exist for mammals, which form a substantial component of cat diets.
Is this even a meme? It’s a screenshot of yet another Windows/windows joke.
But seriously, your cats are fucking the ecosystem up