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De-exinction, yes or no?
Topic Started: Mar 1 2015, 08:56 PM (4,458 Views)
Inhumanum Rapax
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^ It sounds like a cool event to witness and study.
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In Africa though, Smiley would be strong enough to toy with cape Buffaloes.
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Mar 7 2015, 12:22 PM
^ It sounds like a cool event to witness and study.
They were really like lions more than anything. There were two very large dominant male brothers, a coalition, and several multi-generational females that stayed close to the run down barn. The big males would disappear for days, even weeks, but usually return with food for the mammas and young. They'd run off the male kittens when they got too big but other adult males would come around while they were out on patrol. We had several knock down drag out fights with rogues trying to unsurp them.
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Mar 7 2015, 12:36 PM
In Africa though, Smiley would be strong enough to toy with cape Buffaloes.
I wouldn't be so sure.

Yes! Another of my terms catches on!
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In general, yes to most species that were made extinct by humans.
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I really want stellars sea cows back.
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^That would be cool too. It just blows my mind that just until 247 years ago there was a sirenian that was about as big as a large elephant or so.

FelisRex, now I'm scared of your avatar.
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Mar 7 2015, 01:32 PM
xenosabre
Mar 7 2015, 12:22 PM
^ It sounds like a cool event to witness and study.
They were really like lions more than anything. There were two very large dominant male brothers, a coalition, and several multi-generational females that stayed close to the run down barn. The big males would disappear for days, even weeks, but usually return with food for the mammas and young. They'd run off the male kittens when they got too big but other adult males would come around while they were out on patrol. We had several knock down drag out fights with rogues trying to unsurp them.
It seems like feral cats are more intelligent and interesting than people give them credit for. Did you ever see them interract with other predators?
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Mar 7 2015, 02:41 PM
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Mar 7 2015, 12:36 PM
In Africa though, Smiley would be strong enough to toy with cape Buffaloes.
I wouldn't be so sure.

Yes! Another of my terms catches on!
I don't know what he means by toying with them but cape buffaloes would probably be smilo's main prey if we put them in Africa. It'd be alot easier to kill than a bison latifrons!
Edited by Inhumanum Rapax, Mar 8 2015, 12:53 AM.
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Lets bring back megalodon, even if it makes no sense. Who wouldn't want to see a 60ft shark?

And Titanoboa.

And megalania, just to supress dingo populations.
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Mar 8 2015, 01:04 PM
And megalania, just to supress dingo populations.
You know that dingoes are vulnerable and are already decreasing right?
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Oh, right, I forgot about that.
...maybe they can suppress foxes and cats then.
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Dingoes do that just fine, and if megalania are introduced, it will decrease dingoes, which will increase mesopredators, and I doubt a 1000+ kg lizard will be interested in small animals.
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maker
Mar 8 2015, 01:35 PM
Dingoes do that just fine, and if megalania are introduced, it will decrease dingoes, which will increase mesopredators, and I doubt a 1000+ kg lizard will be interested in small animals.
What Australia needs is a more naturalized mesopredator like Tasmanian Devils.
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Mar 8 2015, 01:35 PM
Dingoes do that just fine, and if megalania are introduced, it will decrease dingoes, which will increase mesopredators, and I doubt a 1000+ kg lizard will be interested in small animals.
I find it difficult to believe that dingoes make any kind of impact on megaherbivores such as brumbies, feral camels, water buffalo or cervids. Komodo Dragons could help make an impact on these large herbivores. Dingos are also much more nimble and would likely see dragons as a rival or threat, unlike water buffalo for example.
And of course, being around ~20kg on average, dingoes are not exactly large animals. I doubt either Megalania or Komodo dragons would have much interest in them.
Edited by Cape Leopard, Mar 8 2015, 10:49 PM.
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Mar 8 2015, 10:46 PM
maker
Mar 8 2015, 01:35 PM
Dingoes do that just fine, and if megalania are introduced, it will decrease dingoes, which will increase mesopredators, and I doubt a 1000+ kg lizard will be interested in small animals.
I find it difficult to believe that dingoes make any kind of impact on megaherbivores such as brumbies, feral camels, water buffalo or cervids. Komodo Dragons could help make an impact on these large herbivores. Dingos are also much more nimble and would likely see dragons as a rival or threat, unlike water buffalo for example.
And of course, being around ~20kg on average, dingoes are not exactly large animals. I doubt either Megalania or Komodo dragons would have much interest in them.
It might be a "myth" from a Dutch conservationist, Frans Vera, but he says - and points to studies - that populations of large herbivores are not limited by predation but by food availability.


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Mar 8 2015, 03:27 PM
maker
Mar 8 2015, 01:35 PM
Dingoes do that just fine, and if megalania are introduced, it will decrease dingoes, which will increase mesopredators, and I doubt a 1000+ kg lizard will be interested in small animals.
What Australia needs is a more naturalized mesopredator like Tasmanian Devils.
Yes. See also this.
Edited by Mesopredator, Mar 8 2015, 11:10 PM.
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