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> If you think that an animal living in Moscow can't survive snow, well, think again I happen to have lots of experience seeing people who have frozen their f
by Supermancho 4y ago
> If you think that an animal living in Moscow can't survive snow, well, think again
I happen to have lots of experience seeing people who have frozen their ferrets, rabbits, hamsters, rats, mice, possums, etc to death. Domesticated ferrets aren't stupid, but they also aren't very good burrowers. Other than finding a nice gopher hole, in the 80s and 90s, a domestic ferret froze to death (still floppy, not solid) outside. Now CA is so hot, they would probably survive pretty well but then die to dehydration and heat in the day even with a burrow.
- pvaldes 4y agoThe problem with animalism is that it has a big, big, blind spot. They see individuals named Harry and Rex, is all that they can see. They are blind to the relationships, the consequences, the animals that aren't cute, and refuse to see the big picture. But individuals don't matter. Not for the science of ecology. Not for nature. Is the population and ecosystem what matters. Individuals in a population die all the time. They freeze, starve or are predated each single night. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if 980 of each 1000 released ferrets die before an hour.
- Supermancho 4y agoWhile I agree, the problem is that the Black footed ferret already is endangered AND the legal ferrets have not crept into the ecosystem from beyond the arbitrary lines humans have drawn. So at both the micro and macro perspectives, you have no explosion of population. Taking a large population of ferrets and putting them in some California farmland and see them die off might be what your conscience requires as "proper evidence", but it's ironically illegal to even perform the test. Much like the CA F&G, it's an ideological problem, not an evidence based one for you.