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Unpopular opinion incoming. But why should one snakes survival be more important than another?
by mrfusion 8y ago
Unpopular opinion incoming. But why should one snakes survival be more important than another?
- tareqak 8y agoReducing biodiversity is a bad thing. Even if you concentrate on things that strictly benefit human beings, there can be unknown benefits ages from now. One example would be finding that the native Florida snake creates some sort of chemical (maybe in its venom or from one of its glands of organs) that can be used to treat some kind of human illness.
- kwk1 8y agoIf snakes were ecologically fungible it wouldn't matter, but they aren't.
- rajacombinator 8y agoWhen one of those snakes is notorious for eating humans it’s reasonable to deprioritize their survival.
- vezycash 8y agoLions, tigers and leopards can eat humans. Yet, to many, their survival is a priority.
- distances 8y agoI absolutely disagree. Human habitation overlaps with very few predators these days, and when they do, I'd generally prefer relocating the humans over controlling the predator population.
- bpicolo 8y agohttps://www.livescience.com/44033-florida-pythons-rarely-attack-people.html https://www.livescience.com/44033-florida-pythons-rarely-att... > The authors of the study[0] said they could only find one report of a free-ranging Burmese python fatality: the death of an infant in Hong Kong about a century ago. [0]: https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wsb.413 https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/wsb...
- CGamesPlay 8y agoThe food chain evolved as a single system that has all species working in tandem to control each other. When you remove links from the food chain, the entire chain falls apart. For example, in Yellowstone, hunting wolves because they are a nuisance to humans caused their prey, elk, to overpopulate and consume all of the plant life along the rivers. Consequently, the rivers began to erode the soil and prevent many other animals from making the area their home. https://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-july/how-wolves-saved-the-foxes-mice-and-rivers-of-yellowstone-national-park https://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-july/how-wolves-saved-the...
- sorokod 8y agoIsn't it the case that a new chain replaces the one that fell apart? If so, in what way chain number 1 was "better" then chain number 2?
- CGamesPlay 8y agoIt’s not the case necessarily. Evolution happened over millions of years and invasive species happen over tens of years or less.