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Article: Hybrids will destroy our wildlife.
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- Australasian Business Intelligence
- Article date:
- July 7, 2008
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Byline: Barry Cohen
Jul 07, 2008 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australia may have narrowly avoided a catastrophe, brought about through the importation of the hybrid savannah cat. The animal is a cross between an African wildcat and a domestic cat. Three companies were planning to bring them into Australia from the US. They avoided quarantine laws through a loophole that defines a fifth generation wild-domestic cross as a domestic animal. The cats would certainly escape and breed with feral cats. Their importation was accidentally ...
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