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title: "Mouse attacks on albatrosses and petrels on Gough Island: view the videos!"
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# Mouse attacks on albatrosses and petrels on Gough Island: view the videos!

Ben Dilley ([Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology](http://www.fitzpatrick.uct.ac.za/), DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa) has filmed introduced House Mice *Mus musculus* attacking chicks of the [Critically Endangered](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=30013) Tristan Albatross *Diomedea dabbenena* and [Endangered](http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/speciesfactsheet.php?id=3909) Atlantic Petrel *Pterodroma incerta* on [Gough Island](http://www.acap.aq/en/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1322-acap-breeding-sites-no-11-gough-island-south-atlantic-hanging-on-against-the-onslaught-of-its-killer-mice) in the South Atlantic.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/T/Tristan_Albatross_wounded_Rob_Ronconi_by_Peter_Ryan.jpg)

 Rob Ronconi holds a dying Tristan Albatross attacked on its rump by mice, photograph by Peter Ryan

 View the video clips by clicking on the species’ names here:

 [Tristan Albatross](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNxqIYLthus)

 [Atlantic Petrel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVehgRcfO98)

 A picture truly tells a thousand words.

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 November 2015*