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Well the thing about a large mammal like an elephant is population control is easy and the effects generally more understood Unlike a zebra muscle which one it
by katbyte 2y ago
Well the thing about a large mammal like an elephant is population control is easy and the effects generally more understood
Unlike a zebra muscle which one it’s in your local lake goooooood luck ever removing them and now your lake may die a toxic blue green algae death
- sidewndr46 2y agoYou would think that, but we can't even agree to eradicate the hippopotamus from the Americas. Why? Animals rights groups think it is apparently an issue to just exterminate them. These are literal invasive species brought in by a drug lord. If it turned out that mammoths were actually a problem, we'd never agree to actually control the population.
- hparadiz 2y agoProbably one of the few actual wins of human activity.
- anon84873628 2y agoWhy?
- gweinberg 2y agoThere's no reason we should be able to agree. Some people like them and want them protected, other people hate them and want them gone. If it were really clear that they were harmful, shooting them all would be super easy, I could probably do it myself. Why would the fact that the guy who introduced them is a drug lord matter? Hippos can't inherit original sin.
- blackbrokkoli 2y agoYour comment made me laugh, but to actually answer: It matters from a Chesterton's Fence perspective: We know that the hippos were not brought for any good reason, inevitability, etc.
- rikroots 2y agoThe camels in Australia would like to (very impolitely) disagree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel
- shellfishgene 2y agoThe camels don't have valuable tusks though...