By Yasemin Saplakoglu, Staff
Writer | July 20, 2018 02:16pm ET
Humans are coming together in
Washington, D.C., to get a head count of cats — every furry one of them,
including those living in the wild, in shelters and in households.
The project, called "D.C.
Cat Count," will take three years and cost $1.5 million, according
to NPR.
Scientists, animal welfare organizations and citizens will do the tabby
tallying, according to the project's website.
Cats, especially feral ones, can
have a large impact on nature. For example, a recent study showed that every
year, feral cats kill around 466 million reptiles in Australia, some
threatened, Live Science previously
reported. Another study by the same team and published in
2017 in the journal Biological
Conservation showed that these Australian cats also
devoured around 272 million birds a year. [Here,
Kitty, Kitty: 10 Facts for Cat Lovers]
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