Jesus, so now we have an owl plague?
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there doesn't seem to be anything here
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the reduced use of an owl-killing rodenticide.
Mice evolving to be immune was always going to happen, but if people don't stop using it asap, there's a very real chance traditional predators start to consider them poisonous...
Then we're really fucked.
But it's wild we have thousands of years of experience with this problem and an obvious solution is just having cats around.
It's not like that was a fringe benefit of cats, rodent control was the entire point, and so important they were worshiped as gods.
Even before people figured out what was happening, they knew cities with a shit ton of cats didn't get hit by plague and disease as hard. Now we know that's because rodents spread disease, and unless they have a very specific parasite, they'll do everything possible to avoid cats.
At some point people started thinking nature would set up something as vital as the CDS just for companionship...
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