Man and the Earth

The Little Killers I

0.025mOctober 24, 1975

In the animal community of the Mediterranean forest, small herbivores, plant-eating animals such as mice, garden dormice, rats, squirrels, and rabbits, are abundant. Their populations are kept in check by small and medium-sized predators, extremely useful ones, such as weasels, polecats, genets, and foxes: the little killers.