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Endangered introduced species
Topic Started: Jan 1 2017, 06:58 PM (1,022 Views)
Wyvax
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Grazier
Jan 9 2017, 02:09 PM
What is the difference between domestic banteng and wild banteng and ditto for Asiatic water buffalo?
I thought the domestic ones were just tamed wild animals like Indian elephants.

Anyway are the banteng of Australia really thriving? They seem to have an extremely limited range and small numbers.
It's Wikipedia so take it with a grain of salt, but apparently they are all confined to a single park where they have grown from 20 individuals to around 10,000 since 1849. They are used exclusively for sport hunting and aboriginal subsistence hunting, and apparently the largest herd outside of Australia is only 500, so yes I would say they are doing extremely well there.
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10 000 is a lot, thanks for the info, guess I should have checked myself.
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Palaeoscincus
Jan 9 2017, 12:13 PM
Its not officially classified as an endangered species but Burmese pythons are listed as a threatened species in many parts of their range but they are thriving in Florida. Also Thalanx, you listed Banteng as a thriving introduced species but its only the domesticated form. If we can list domestic versions of a species, feral water buffalo are also thriving in many introduces areas while the wild form is endangered in its native range.
They are not thriving in florida, they are keeping up a small population in a small area of the state and have been for a long time.
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Question: What's the point in this thread?
Edited by Mammuthus, Jan 9 2017, 04:39 PM.
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Species that are endangered in their home range but thriving where they have been introduced.
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Maybe he's asking if there's a greater meaning in talking about it, say perhaps to think about introducing critically endangered species into other less hostile or more spacious bountiful places as a way to preserve them.

Mind you, I just took the thread to be about what it says, for interest's own sake.
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