About 100 years ago, somebody brought some rabbits with him when he journeyed to Australia. Then they got loose. Rabbits had never been to the island land and had no natural predators there. Result: rabbits are now considered a major nuisance in Australia and some Aussies have gone so far as to import coyotes to hunt the rabbits.
But then there are no natural predators in Australia for coyotes...
As invasive species go, rabbits in Australia must the most destructive ever. The engineered & introduced pathogens have reduced the population (and now affect non target population) but their numbers are staggering.
As invasive species go, rabbits in Australia must the most destructive ever. The engineered & introduced pathogens have reduced the population (and now affect non target population) but their numbers are staggering.
Maybe they should have gone a little easier on the dingos and then they wouldn’t be inviting further disaster with imported song dogs.
LOL!
I wonder what are coyotes' natural enemies...
Everybody familiar with the Hawaiian snakes-mongooses-birds conundrum?
I have spent most of my life trying (among other things) to understand the human inability to grasp the notion of "unintended consequences..."
Like the inter-relationship between "tree and bug and bunny" worship, ghastly forest fires, and unreachable home ownership...