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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "The Trek: An Epic of Survival (The Darwin's World Series)" by Jack L Knapp
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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=20
>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"
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"