[A study] show[s] [that domestic cats] eat more than 2,000 species globally – including hundreds that are of conservation concern.
“Our study sheds light on the predatory habits of one of the world’s most successful and widely distributed invasive predators,” the researchers, led by Christopher Lepczyk from Auburn University in the US, wrote in the paper.
Once in the past cats were considered sent by the devil to help witches and were almost extinct, shortly after the Black Death eradicated more than half of the European population. Cats are harmful in countries like Australia, where the local fauna has no defenses against this predatory animal, in countries where predators like felines have never existed.