Credit: zsv3207 via Getty Images If you let your cat wander outside, they may come home with an unpleasant surprise, like a ...

Dead as a doornail ... Media reports pitched cat people against bird people, animal rights advocates against ecologists, and pet owners against academics. One of the researchers cowrote a book ...

“First, cats often find and consume dead birds beneath windows, leading people to underestimate how many birds are actually killed by window collisions. Second, twice as many birds as those who ...

In addition, Newsday reported in February that roughly 20 ducks, geese and shorebirds found dead on an East Patchogue beach were likely positive for bird flu. While the number of cases of cats ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. In 2024, as zoos were hit hard by H5N1 bird flu, big cats were particularly affected: tigers, lions, a cheetah, and a panther all died after being ...