Mice are eating nesting seabirds in the Pacific alive

On the Midway Atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, invasive mice are attacking nesting albatrosses, causing gruesome wounds that bleed profusely. Why would mice do this? Scientists think it may be because they are drinking the birds' blood. Non-native species cause a majority of seabird extinctions around the world, and mice have become a particularly bad problem on the island since just 2015, attacking the birds from behind and causing open woods on the heads and necks. The Midway...

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