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>> natural carnivores long been hunted out of existence That is a trend seen in island nations. Japan and the UK both wiped out the large predators. Some specu
by sandworm101 2y ago
>> natural carnivores long been hunted out of existence
That is a trend seen in island nations. Japan and the UK both wiped out the large predators. Some speculate that when a country owns and entire landmass that the one government/culture gains control sufficient to enforce its will absolutely. Don't like bears? They can be wiped out with the passing of one law. Where landmasses are divided, no one government/culture has power. Take the US/Canada landmass. Countless US animals (ie wolves) only survive in the US from refuge populations in Canada. Had the US culture owned the entire landmass, as in the UK, then wolves would likely have been eliminated.
- arethuza 2y agoThe lasts bears and lynxes were killed in Britain a long time before there were anything like unified political structures - indeed possibly even before the Angles (English) and Scots even arrived on the island. The last wolf was killed much later - usually given as the 17th century but even that is before Scotland and England were politically unified.