These Japanese Islands Are Completely Dominated By Feral Cats

A ferry from Fukuoka, Japan will take you to Aoshima Island in less than 20 minutes. Though just slightly more than 50 people -- mostly fisherman and their elderly relatives -- inhabit the island, Aoshima has become a booming tourist attraction. Why? Cats.
Known as "cat island" and "cat heaven," Aoshima has six cats for every human, making the island a veritable breeding ground for and "civilization" of strays. Indeed, cats arrange themselves in hierarchies, where males compete for territory and their female mates compete for food.Taken together, this yields a violent patriarchy of warring factions. As you might imagine, these cats don't live as long as their domesticated counterparts: Ferals have a life expectancy of three to five years whereas house cats easily can live for 15 years.
Consequently, cat researchers and activists argue that living conditions on cat heaven are anything but heavenly. With so much interspecies competition, kittens often die before adulthood from starvation, disease, and a type of infanticide previously seen exclusively in lions.

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