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.
U.S. LOS ANGELES, July 30â Researchers say they have found the genetic defect responsible for about a third of the cases of dwarfism, or 1 case in every 20,000 people. Scientists at the University of California at Irvine found the gene that causes the defect, achondroplasia, just six weeks after they began looking for it. Three other teams had narrowed the search to the end of human chromosome No. 4.