Nintendo saves the birds

[NewsWhore]

Hoy newspaper's environmental editor Domingo Abreu points out that Nintendo has been a godsend for birds in Dominican cities, and a big reason for the increase in birds urban areas. He points out that birds have made Santo Domingo their habitat, even species that were expected to become extinct years ago. He provides a cultural explanation for the phenomenon. Slingshots are no longer popular with Dominican youngsters, whose innate violent nature is now being nurtured instead by Nintendo-type electronic games.

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