Culling, your thoughts.

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Some culls are neccesary, but is it really up to us to control one species to ensure the survival of another?

Whatever happened to natural selection?

― rumpie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 07:30 (eighteen years ago)

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― rumpie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 07:30 (eighteen years ago)

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― gershy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 07:39 (eighteen years ago)

The council said the animals would then be dispatched humanely with a quick blow to the head.

Hi, what do you do for a living?
I blow squirrels.

― StanM, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 07:53 (eighteen years ago)

(er, sorry)

Yes, it is necessary, since natural selection is a local phenomenon that can't cope with imported species that might have an unfair advantage over the local ones. (see killer bees, red fire ants, giant frogs for examples of how it can go wrong)

― StanM, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

hedgehogs on Scottish islands is a good case study here - shurely relocating problem animal to an ok locale should be done where possible?

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

screw natural selection, hedgehogs r cuet.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

For culling your thoughts, I suggest CBT.

Oh wait, this is about hedgehogs.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

We'll take your hedgehogs! Do they eat ticks?

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

vermin should be slaughtered.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

humans are a menace.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

the earth would be better off without us.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

but see, that's just boring kneejerk misanthropy. don't you think any other group of animals would be just as bad if they'd evolved their own civilization?

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

We don't need hedgehogs in Scotland. We're getting WOLVES!

― Gukbe, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

giant squid wouldn't be just as bad.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Squid civilisation?

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― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

a world run by hedgehogs sounds ok to me.

― That one guy that quit, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, there are too many white-tailed deer on the US east coast. and deer tick-borne diseases are a big problem. Two landscapers here on Martha's Vineyard have died from tularemia, which may or may not be spread by ticks. Lyme disease is definitely spread by deer ticks, and who knows how many cases of crippling arthritis and neurological problems could in fact be Lyme. I know so many young people here with bad joints. It's weird. A one or two week hunting season does little to cull the herd. Hunting as a folkway handed down from father to son is dying out. Some communities have resorted to hiring sharpshooters with rifles to cull their herds.
Also, skunks, raccoons and feral cats have almost completely wiped out the ground-nesting birds that eat ticks—whippoorwills, bobwhite quail, ring-neck pheasants. We don't have the coyotes or wolves that would keep their numbers down. The ecosystem is out of whack.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

beth otm: any micro-level intervention into an animal population (like culling) has to be looked at against the background of HUGE change in the environment. it's the same situation here in the midwest. predator populations are constant or dwindling, meanwhile a landscape of grasses and trees is now corn and soybeans: a herbivore supermarket.

― gff, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

My brother has totalled three vehicles thanks to roaming deer.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

I should post a picture of my car's dented hood. Consider it posted.

― Beth Parker, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

they apparently have wild boar scavenging around the dustbins in Poland. That sounds scary to me. Those things are mean.

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link] are quite cute tho.....

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:52 (eighteen years ago)

all my pic are illegal :(

why???

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

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