Posts Tagged “Macquarie Island”

Jan 13 2009

Food chain disaster!

Posted by: Lisa in Earth, Ecosystems, Science News, animals, science

Macquarie Island, Australia - Penguins

Location of Macquarie Island

This is Macquarie Island. It’s part of the country of Australia. This penguin colony lives there. There are also other kinds of seabirds, cats, and rabbits on the island. About 9 years ago, Australia decided to get rid of all the cats so that they wouldn’t hunt the seabirds.

If you’ve ever played that Rabbits-Foxes-Grass game, you might be able to predict what happened next. What happened in our game when we didn’t have many foxes?

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