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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "The Trek: An Epic of Survival (The Darwin's World Series)" by
 Jack L Knapp
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:34:50 -0600
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On 12/17/2024 10:57 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 16:47:40 -0000 (UTC), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
> Nicoll) wrote:
> 
>> In article <prk0mjli6tskrrsssnpjva8l20hcacg2l2@4ax.com>,
>> Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 11:16:01 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
>>> <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/15/24 09:32, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>>> On 12/15/2024 9:10 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>>
>>> <snippo>
>>>
>>>>> Humans have evolved to become very good at getting other animals to do
>>>>> our work for us.  :)
>>>>
>>>> 	Yes we have but it is common situation that the species
>>>> involved benefit somehow with the relationship to man-kind/cruel
>>>> including the perpetuation of their DNA from a species that
>>>> spares them to be of future use.
>>>> 	The ecologically minded might point out that all the
>>>> available species played a part in making ecological space
>>>> for the biped with a larger brain. Thus it is to our own
>>>> advantage in the future to maintain and extend populations
>>>> of other predator and prey species. And to leave them alone
>>>> to enjoy their lives in the territories left for them as
>>>> much as possible.
>>>
>>> Nextdoor shows that several species (deer and, of course, bunnies and
>>> rats but also coyotes and bobcats) have instead moved into the cities
>>> and suburbs.
>>>
>>> This is thought to suppress the bunnies and rats, but it also makes
>>> life outside dangerous for cats and at least small dogs.
>>>
>>> And possums and raccoons have been around for decades, if not longer.
>>>
>>> And then there are the flying dinosaur descendants, some of them cute,
>>> others less cute.
>>
>> One of the odder details I encountered while digging through old
>> newpaper files is that in 1900, Kitchener (then Berlin) parks did
>> not have squirrels. They were deliberately introduced. Maintaining
>> a breeding population was challenging, as kids kept killing the
>> squirrels.
>>
>> In the last 40 years, Kitchener's downtown pigeon population seems
>> to have plummeted due to local raptors suddenly discovering KW
>> is basically one huge buffet. Seagulls also seem to be less
>> common.
> 
> Ebb and flow.
> 
> I haven't seen a bunny for a long time now. But once they were, if not
> common, then not rare sights. Some of them white, others brown.
> 
> In the last Very Cold Winter, Nextdoor reported some amazing behavior:
> hummingbirds, which (it appears) generally insist (violently) on using
> the feeder all by themselves, were contentedly sharing feeders.
> 
> These were, of course, feeders which were heated to the point that
> their feet didn't actually freeze to the rails.

I saw a brown bunny on our walk Sunday afternoon.  It lives in my 
neighbor's front yard.

Lynn