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Kitty Cams researcher to reveal feline secrets
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The University of Georgia researcher whose “Kitty Cams” project made national news last year will detail some of her findings in “The Effects of Cats on Urban Wildlife” at the Oconee Rivers Audubon Society’s next meeting, set for 7 p.m. Feb. 7 at Sandy Creek Nature Center. Sonia Hernandez and her colleagues fitted 55 free-roaming, suburban Athens cats with point-of-view cameras to see how often the felines stalked and caught wildlife and what kinds of dangers the cats faced. The researchers found that cats spend a lot of time crouching under cars and about half, mostly young males, kill reptiles, rodents and other wildlife.