In a town in Mozambique, there was an overpopulation of

Last updated: 8/2/2022

In a town in Mozambique, there was an overpopulation of rats. The rats were reproducing rapidly and destroying farmlands. The town's solution was to bring in a non-native cat from Malawi to control the population size of the rats. What is one consequence of introducing this non-native species? No consequences because animals move about freely and the cats would wind up in Mozambique eventually. The cat population will grow unchecked because they don't have a natural predator. The ecosystem will be altered because all non-native species are invasive. The cats will not rid the town of the rats since rats are fast reproducers.