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The obvious solution to Britain's squirrel woes is therefore to introduce hawks, eagles and coyotes, no? (My services as a wildlife consultant are available to
by kchoudhu 12y ago
The obvious solution to Britain's squirrel woes is therefore to introduce hawks, eagles and coyotes, no?
(My services as a wildlife consultant are available to HR Environment Agency at any time for a nominal fee.)
- arethuza 12y agoWe already have plenty birds of prey (including golden eagles and, here in Scotland at least, sea eagles). There is even occasional talk of re-introducing wolves. The real problem is that we already have a native species of squirrels, red squirrels, which everybody loves and are being out-competed by the grey squirrels.
- kchoudhu 12y agoI was kidding around: introducing more invasive species to counter invasive species seems to be a common (unfortunate) trope when attempting to get rid of unwanted critters. (Also: Arethusa...are you a Cryptonomicon fan, by any chance?)
- arethuza 12y agoYeah - been using the same id since Slashdot days (which I only seemed to have stopped using in 2010). I guess I am quite the Neal Stephenson fan - my WoT and XBL ids are variations of Fraa Jad.