"In biology this is referred to as an area with the highest 'degree of biological diversity,'" says Liu Yi-hsin, a research fellow at the Department of Reforestation of the Forestry Research Institute. However, these also happen to be the areas most suitable to human habitation, so inevitably they have become the most developed, urbanized, and man-ipulated.
消耗人類廢棄物的高手﹘﹘鼠輩，就與同屬哺乳類的其他動物呈兩個極端﹘ ﹘其他動物數量日減，它們則蒸蒸日上，四處橫行，污染食物，傳染疾病。同樣「不挑嘴」、外型又討好的鴿子，也往往被都市人餵養得又肥又大。