Evolution again - this weeks episode - Extinction

[gemfyre]

One thing to say
Humans suck.

But I do have faith that nature will prevail in the end.

Biological controls are great, if you are able to find a predator that feeds solely on the pest species, then once the pest species is controlled the biological control also dies down.

Unfortunately things aren't usually that ecologically simple. It's barely ever a food chain, it's a web. One animal eats many below it, and they eat many plants below them, and each is eaten by many animals. So finding a specific biological control is near on impossible for most of the pests we've spread around the world.

And then there's cats, gee, what DOES eat them in the wild?? NOTHING! I mean heck, domestic cats aren't even a SPECIES in the wild. Top carnivores like cats, that are beautifully adapted to cope with pretty much any conditions are pretty much impossible to get rid of once they're established. :(

If things do keep going the way they are the world will probably consist of nothing but humans, rats, domestic cats, cockroaches and pigeons.

Comments

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[ex-myladysi.livejournal.com]

With our superior exoskeletons, bones that are incredibly hard and never break, razor sharp claws and teeth and poisonis blood, what could possibly...

LMAO!

Pretty stupid brains at that.

I think that says it all.

Smart, but also very stupid at the same time.

Too smart for our own good, perhaps that's it.

Doh

[morninglord.livejournal.com]

Predictabely, I notted the bard sperling of poisonous mere sekunds aftyer clucking on the powst commernt key.
Sig.h.

Re: Doh

[ex-myladysi.livejournal.com]

LOL, that's okay. ^_^