“We have completely overloaded the desert with these highly intelligent predators with a high metabolic rate. They go into predatory overdrive when their eggs hatch,” he said. The feeding frenzy is indiscriminate. In addition to devastating the desert tortoise, ravens target birds including the sage grouse, snowy plover and the least tern, as well as horned lizards and snakes.

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