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On Brazil’s tropical island of cats, virus led to starvation

by Diarlei RodriguesDavid Biller
| October 17, 2020 12:03 AM

MANGARATIBA, Brazil (AP) — All the locals knew the island just west of Rio de Janeiro was teeming with cats. They left food and even brought tourists. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and human support dried up, resulting in a gruesome scene witnessed by fishermen: a group of cats devouring others’ corpses.

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