Mice on the Golan Heights are committing suicide in large numbers by leaping to their deaths off high cliffs. Scientists explain the phenomenon as an instinctive response to over-population. The sudden shortage of mice is being felt by the Golan Heights owl population, which depend for their food on a plentiful supply of rodents.
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