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rxttenfish · 1 year

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i know i did reblog that post earlier but the specific implication that we should fence in wild areas or that other continents dont have large megafauna in their local areas is just.... bothering me

like 1. restricting the movement of animals is bad for ecology, actually, and its part of why the highway system in the USA is so specifically concerning. not just because larger animals tend to maintain larger swathes of territory, but because animals need to move between areas in order to prevent genetic islands and inbreeding. this is actually part of the issue in why certain animals are endangered, because you can get too many in one area and not enough in other areas and they cannot move between areas

and 2. you?? do get megafauna interacting with and in local areas??? like even here its not an all-the-time sort of deal, and so is it in other areas, but there's still plenty of instances of elephants breaking open houses or blocking roads, and certainly plenty of instances of large cats hanging out around human trash. its not just an ''only in america!'' type deal

#all the care guide says is 'biomass'#again i think this is just a case of. ''theres a lot of usamericans on the web''#so things that apply to usamericans get over-reported compared to the rest of the world #but like as someone who does take a major interest in human-wildlife conflict #yeah no if you live in a place with megafauna they will turn up in your back yard #also i will go out on a limb and say #its fine. like obviously there are multiple different factors here like if theres food out or an unsecured dumpster but #or the extremely rare cases of like. a starving cougar stalking someone.#but like. its fine if an animal (even a large animal) is in your yard #if its not doing anything other than its own business then whatever #i can hardly say a bear trundling through and maybe sitting down is acclimating it to people #its not convenient no but things can be inconvenient without being bad

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