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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: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 10:59:36 -0800
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On 12/22/24 08:41, Paul S Person wrote:
> 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)?

	For the hunters they were essential.
> 
> Which brings to things to mind:
> 1. /Watership Down/
> 2. "It's not /nice/ to mess with Mother Nature"

	Did you hear yet that the California ground squirrels will hunt and 
devour voles?  Rodent predating on rodent.
	
Bunny Bashing: Predator Control in Early Kern County May 31, 2021
<https://www.valleyagvoice.com/bunny-bashing-predator-control-in-early-kern-county/>

Seems like it may be time again for rabbit roundup according to the article.

	bliss