JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - "Monster mice" are eating metre-high albatross chicks alive, threatening rare bird species on a remote south Atlantic island seen as the world's most important seabird colony.
Conservation groups say the avian massacre is occurring on Gough Island in the South Atlantic, a British territory about 1,600 kms southwest of Cape Town and home to more than 10 million birds.
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