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Published online 18 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050718-2
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Mice gang up on endangered birds
Attacks on albatrosses seem to be a learned behaviour.
On one of the Earth's most remote islands, mice have learned, and are apparently teaching each other, how to attack and kill bird chicks that are 200 times their size.
Far from exulting in the cleverness of mice, the researchers who discovered this want to eradicate the rodents from the island in order to save endangered albatrosses.
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