What happens when you lock one of New Zealand’s most hated predators up with two other notorious killers? You get one scared stoat. Researchers can now show just how afraid the stoat — the killer of thousands of young kiwi each year — is of its larger counterparts in the wilderness, the cat and the ferret. Source: University of Auckland and Landcare Research
Predators: Cats and ferrets rule
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