Blackbird eating a ripe fig. 1  As well as scratching up your vegetable beds in search of worms blackbirds will readily eat a variety of ripe fruits including tomatoes. They are by far the biggest threat to my tomato crop and if not checked can cause a lot of damage.
Dwarfism can be caused by more than 200 different conditions, but there are two causes that are most commonly seen in humans. The first main cause is achondroplasia, which accounts for about 70% of drawfism cases.
The opposite condition, dwarfism, is caused by underproduction of the same hormone. (Overproduction of growth hormone in adults causes acromegaly.) Gigantism can be corrected only by early diagnosis in childhood and removal by surgery of part of the pituitary gland or by x-ray treatment.