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Posted Thu Sep 18 2008: from Guardian (UK): Starving guillemots push rival chicks off cliffs http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1221697910 Guillemots have begun killing their neighbours' chicks by pecking them to death and pushing them off cliff edges in a desperate reaction to collapsing fish stocks in the North Sea. The sudden rise of infanticide in a colony in the Firth of Forth marks an unprecedented breakdown in the social behaviour of the birds, described by experts as a "catastrophe" that could eventually see the whole colony die out.... It is extremely rare for guillemots to leave a chick unattended, but Ashbrook said 60 percent of those in the Isle of May colony were left alone last year. Of 99 chicks born between late May and early August, 60 percent died -- almost 70 percent of them in direct attacks by neighbours. [Read more stories about: bird collapse] This item will appear in our PANIQuiz! New!: No reader quips yet -- be the first! Got a PaniQuip? Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit): First name: The text shown in the Web image to the right: We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

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