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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: "The Trek: An Epic of Survival (The Darwin's World Series)" by
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:30:05 -0800
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On 12/21/24 08:47, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 14:10:30 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 21/12/24 04:43, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> On 12/20/24 06:40, Tony Nance wrote:
>>>> On 12/20/24 9:24 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>>>> In article <6We9P.32715$Uup4.9647@fx10.iad>,
>>>>> Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>>>> Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> writes:
>>>>>>> On 20/12/24 15:55, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>>>>> Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 17/12/2024 16:57, Paul S Person wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My sister lives in rural Scotland.  She used to
>>>>>>>>> see a rabbit, from time to time, being carried
>>>>>>>>> cross-country in the jaws of the family cat.
>>>>>>>>> I mean, probably several different rabbits.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rabbits are evil animals that eat my vegetables.  They eat my
>>>>>>>> oregano,
>>>>>>>> they even ate my feijoa seedling.  They must die.  Cats like this
>>>>>>>> should be supported.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think later, the household budget for pet food
>>>>>>>>> improved.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If you have the money, you can buy rabbit in
>>>>>>>>> tin cans, to have later.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Years ago I dated someone with a crossbow who would hunt them in my
>>>>>>>> yard (as firearms are not legal to use within the city limits here).
>>>>>>>> I got kind of tired of lapin au moutarde but since then I have
>>>>>>>> learned
>>>>>>>> how to cook them szechuan style.
>>>>>>>> --scott
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rabbits are a massive problem in the dry Central Otago area of the
>>>>>>> South
>>>>>>> Island of New Zealand where they decimate crops and grass leaving
>>>>>>> barren
>>>>>>> soil. An introduced species with no natural predators, with large and
>>>>>>> frequent litters, they have successfully defied attempts of
>>>>>>> eradication.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Time to introduce the coyote to the rabbits?
>>>>>
>>>>> That's a super-genius idea!
>>>>>
>>>>>      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1uFDiDoQc
> 
> One of the best WE Coyote cartoons. And maybe the only one with a
> Bunny in it.
> 
> The sequence (several cartoons) involving the catapult is my favorite.
>>>> Perfect!!
>>>>
>>>      Good luck with Coyotes but why does not the Dingo
>>> make inroards into the lapin cuisine?
>>
>> The Dingo would make no distinction between rabbit and lapin but resides
>> in Australia where it is no threat to the New Zealand bunny which has no
>> predators other than humans.
> 
> This may come as a shock to you, but, in theory, I would think dingoes
> could be imported from Australia to take care of the rabbits. Provided
> they like rabbit, of course.
> 
> 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.

	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.

	bliss

	bliss