Re: "The Trek: An Epic of Survival (The Darwin's World Series)" by Jack L Knapp

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:30:05 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

On 12/21/24 08:47, Paul S Person wrote:

<snippo: rabbit control for New Zealand>

Of course, there might be problems with what /else/ they decide to go
after. But that is true of all predators.

>
No whatever predatory species is chosen should all be sterilized. I am
sure that the North American Coyote will enjoy
rabbit for a long time. Unless you have some ground dwelling
creature that is easier to catch and more delicious.
This will afford a continuing market for sterilized predators.

They also catch rodents (specifially, rats). Which is also helpful.

What the prefer is, AFAIK, not known.

In the Central Valley of California around the Fresno
Bakerfield areas, there was a rabbit problem which led to mass
hunts by people, farmers and kin. driving the pesky bunnies
before them and clubbing them to death. Human occupation of
the countryside with cutting of trees and even brush as well
as the plows disturbing the burrows and the noisy machines.
So the predators went upslope and did not regularly visit
their old hunting grounds which filled up with bunnies.

Did the hunts work? Or are they still ongoing (in season)?

Which brings to things to mind:
1. /Watership Down/
2. "It's not /nice/ to mess with Mother Nature"
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"