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Canna wildlife success
The project to eradicate rats from Canna appears to have been so successful that experts have started to reintoroduce the island’s native wood mice.
Canna’s wood mice may be unique to the island – they have a noticeably different colouration and are up to 50 pr cent larger than their mainland counterparts.
Although the rats were a serious threat to the mice, the rats were also affecting the large number of rare and beautiful nesting seabirds on the island.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland removed 154 wood mice in October 2005 to establish a breeding population in Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park.
Around 40 adult mice were returned to Canna last month. They will be monitored for the next two years, with more mice being returned.
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