More than a score of Australian mammals have been exterminated by feral cats. These predators, which arrived with European settlers, still threaten native wildlife—and are too abundant on the mainland to eliminate, as has been achieved on some small islands which were previously infested with them. But Alexandra Ross of the University of New South Wales thinks she has come up with a different way to deal with the problem. As she writes in a paper in the Journal of Applied Ecology, she is giving feline-awareness lessons to wild animals involved in re-introduction programmes, in order to try to make them cat-savvy.
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机译：野猫灭绝了超过数十种澳大利亚哺乳动物。这些与欧洲定居者一起到达的捕食者仍然威胁着本土野生动植物，而且大陆上的捕食者数量太多，无法消灭，就像在一些先前被它们感染的小岛上所实现的那样。但是新南威尔士大学的亚历山德拉·罗斯（Alexandra Ross）认为她想出了另一种方法来解决这个问题。正如她在《应用生态学杂志》（Journal of Applied Ecology）上的一篇论文中所写的那样，她正在为参与重新引入计划的野生动物提供猫科动物的意识课程，以试图使它们对猫变得精通。
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