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Dauphine works at the National Zoo studying wild birds, where her research has focused on one of birds’ enemies: cats. An online lecture by Dauphine is entitled “apocalypse meow – freeranging cats and the destruction of American wildlife.”
My scheduled rodent pick-up day wasn’t for another two weeks, so I called my friends at the local zoo and begged for help. But I was on a work deadline, so by the time I arrived at the zoo the vulture had eaten several pork chops and some very nice free-range chicken.
Also frequent escapees (or very freeranging domestics) are guinea fowl and to a lesser extent a number of other gamebirds up to and including peacocks. Photo copyright The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, taken from the Guam Rail page. . It persists in captivity at a breeding facility on Guam and in a number of American zoos.
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