Jonny Quest!
Posted on 05/14/2020 3:42:39 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
“I am the Lizard King, I can do anything”
Yeah. The iguanas running around Key West certainly caught me off guard when I was down there in Jan
That, and the chickens walking around everywhere
Is hunting season open?
Kill it and grill it.
Got bullets? If yes, season is open. If no, go get bullets. Season is open. :)
Tell me about it! Part’s of Texas is being overrun with exotic species from other countries. I’m in West TX and so far I’ve seen Black Buck Antelope, Axis Deer and Fallow Deer on the ranch and we’ve developed several small herds of Aoudad Sheep. All but the Aoudad have escaped from exotic hunting ranches. The Aoudad were introduced in the late 40-s and 50’s and have migrated several hundred miles to get here establish substantial populations along the way. In central Texas it’s much worse.
Ironically enough, wikipedo has just revised their page on this today, yesterday and several times a week ago https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Argentine_black_and_white_tegu&action=history
That’s how Jurrassic World IV will open. And 1000 lb gnarly wild hogs with lethal cutters chasing the reptiles into the Atlantic.
And BOOTS!
The tegus probably has no chance vs. a rock python.
Two monitors moved into my place in Jakarta around six months ago. During the last rainy season (Nov to April) the frog population is down 90%, rats are down 70%, and this year I did not see a single cobra (usually 8 or 10 every year).
Problem is, they eat all the food from the dogs’ dish as well.
watch out....remember bats in Wuhan???!!!!!
I see potential for Alton Brown to do a Quarantine Quitchen episode.
The Argentine climate is more like Georgia’s than South Florida’s.
Get out the Gamo varminter and have at it.
WOW!
Just wow.
I lived in the Great State of Texas a few years and visited a buddy up in West Tx/Panhandle a few times(the early 70s).
Matador Tx, never seen or heard of anything like this!!!
It was truly slim pickings up there and according to this article, some can make a living off the critters.
His family raised cotton and worked at the Co-op for ~ seventy-five cents an hour(back then)! Depending on the price of cotton.
A tough call.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/01/how-aoudad-invaded-texas/604834/
Daniel Wilcox, a lifelong Texan and a graduate student at Sul Ross’s Borderlands Research Institution, moved to Alpine in September of last year for a research project that will use satellite collars to track the geospatial relationships of desert bighorn sheep, aoudads, and mule deer. He, too, wrestles with mixed emotions about the two species. “The aoudad and bighorns are competing,” he says. “I have this attitude—it’s sour—but when I see an aoudad, I can’t help it: I hate it.” Once, as Wilcox describes it, he watched an aoudad herd so enormous that it liquified the landscape, the mass of sandy-colored bodies shimmering the desert stillness into motion. “The mountainsides were rippling,” he says. Had desert bighorn sheep populated the scene instead, it would have been a dreamscape. But months away from December’s transplant, such displays of the aoudad’s strength in West Texas can have the cast of a nightmare.
“They will be, and are, they worst invasive species we’ll ever see,”
“You can’t barbecue your way out of this problem,”
https://www.nprillinois.org/post/feral-swine-worst-invasive-species-well-ever-see#stream/0
Wild hogs present problems, but can’t be hunted in Illinois
With hogs, it’s simply a food and water quest both day and night. They will feed, breed and forage continuously unless they are pressured by hunters, etc.,
Illinois IDNR regulations prohibit the taking of wild hogs except in special conditions
Maybe connected to our VERY FAT HOG of a governor?
Jonny Quest!
Alton Brown???
Justin Wilson is the guy you want, “I gar-on-tee!”
He is long gone but somewhere in his books and tapes?
Have you seen any of the Thursday episodes of Alton and his smart wife in their Georgia home doing Qaurantine Quitchen? Downright freaky!
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