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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example of Darwinian Natural Selection in action. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. Where has all the road kill gone? 2013.02.023.

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Oostvaardersplassen

10,000 Birds

The grazers are glorified farm animals, but they have been labelled by some very irresponsible people as “wild”. The animals themselves identified as “civilised” and started a hunger strike in protest. Nowadays, the numbers are being controlled through culling. Actually, no, they just starved to death for lack of care.

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