オーストラリアで野ネズミさんが大量発生

　監獄の電気配線や天井のシーリングや…を壊しまくるので、ついに監獄をいったん解体。職員も収容者もいったん配置換え、という大ごと。

BBC Australian mouse plague: Thousands of inmates moved from infested jail 22 Jun 2021

「A mouse plague in New South Wales, Australia, has forced a jail to relocate thousands of inmates while it carries out cleaning and renovations.

More than 400 prisoners and 200 staff at the Wellington Correctional Centre will be moved to other facilities over the next two weeks.」

「Local media say it started in the spring of 2020 during the harvest season.

It has been caused by a combination of ideal weather conditions for breeding and a bountiful harvest that followed devastating bushfires and a years-long drought.」

「With plenty of grain to feed on, and diminished populations of predators that died during the drought, mice have flourished.」

　要は近年の大火災が主要な原因。これに今期の作柄が良すぎたことで、ネズミ大発生が大決定。
　エサとなる穀物は豊富、豊作になるくらいにほどほどに宜しい気候、といって捕食者たる大型肉食動物の類は大火災のおかげで壊滅。絵に描いたように「害虫」「害獣」大発生の基本図面通りに展開しているという訳だ。

　…あ。これ、論文に使えるな。次の教育論文に差し挟もうか。