LONDON (AFP) - Giant carnivorous mice on the British-ruled island of Gough in the south Atlantic are eating seabird chicks alive in mass feeding frenzies, threatening several species' survival....
The house mice, while three times the size of those seen in mainland Britain, are still only one 250th the size of the chicks they attack....
The mice, which strike at night in large numbers, are devouring more than one million petrel, shearwater and albatross chicks on Gough Island every year....(Yahoo News 7/26/05)
says: