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LONDON (AFP) - Giant carnivorous mice on the British-ruled island of Gough in the south Atlantic are eating seabird chicks alive in mass feeding frenzies, threatening several species' survival....
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The house mice, while three times the size of those seen in mainland Britain, are still only one 250th the size of the chicks they attack....
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The mice, which strike at night in large numbers, are devouring more than one million petrel, shearwater and albatross chicks on Gough Island every year....(Yahoo News 7/26/05)
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