{"id":567890,"date":"2025-11-18T15:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=567890"},"modified":"2025-11-18T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:13:12","slug":"still-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/still-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Still hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_567895\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-567895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cachorro-passaro-2025-06-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cachorro-passaro-2025-06-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cachorro-passaro-2025-06-800-250x181.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cachorro-passaro-2025-06-800-700x507.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/RPF-notas-cachorro-passaro-2025-06-800-120x87.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Prensis\u2009\/\u2009Getty Images<\/span>Birds can also suffer stress when chased by dogs, which have a natural prey drive<span class=\"media-credits\">Prensis\u2009\/\u2009Getty Images<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite being domesticated and occasionally pampered, pet dogs and cats\u2014which number around one billion and 500 million, respectively\u2014have not stopped being predators. When allowed to roam off-leash and without their owners, they can cause serious damage to other species. According to a study by Curtin University, Australia, cats are the prime suspects in the deaths of 500 brown kiwis (New Zealand&#8217;s national bird) in a colony of 900 and the falling number of penguins in Tasmania. They also kill chicks nesting on beaches, including endangered birds, such as the hooded plover. Even on a leash, dogs can injure, frighten, or kill reptiles and birds. In the USA, deer will run for longer from a person with a dog on a leash than from a person alone. Furthermore, their feces and urine can transfer zoonoses to wildlife and pollute waterways (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.publish.csiro.au\/PC\/PC24071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pacific Conservation Biology<\/em><\/a>, April 10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite having been domesticated, dogs and cats maintain their predatory instinct and pose risks to wildlife","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[266],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-567890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-zoology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567900,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567890\/revisions\/567900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567890"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=567890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}