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Chapter 754: Chapter 753: Stray Cat Chapter 754: Chapter 753: Stray Cat Fang Ye said, “Under normal circumstances, a healthy ecosystem forms a web-like relationship in which the numbers of each species fluctuate but remain within a certain range, maintaining a dynamic balance in the ecosystem.

However, when cats that don’t belong in the ecosystem are introduced, they prey on birds, weakening the ecosystem’s capacity to control insect populations, causing a lack of food for raptors and medium-sized mammals that also feed on small animals.”

Ecosystems have been formed through long periods of evolution, where species have competed, excluded, adapted, and cooperated for hundreds to thousands of years, establishing relationships that are interdependent and mutually constraining.

After the introduction of an alien species, it may be repelled by the new environment if it can’t adapt; if there are no natural predators or checks to contain it, it becomes a true invader, disrupting the balance, changing or destroying the local ecological environment and severely damaging biodiversity.

The most famous ecological disaster caused by cats was Tibbers, a cat that killed all of Stephens Island’s endemic Lyall’s wren species within a year.

That was a closed island environment with no animals capable of coping with such a perfect predator as the cat. In China, in the wild, there are predators like leopard cats and red foxes that share the same ecological niche, keeping stray cats in check, so they don’t cause much trouble.

But in cities, stray cats that would normally be eliminated by nature can feed on household waste or even be fed by humans, allowing them to breed in large numbers, reaching a population density that is impossible for small carnivores in nature.