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A lot of effort must have been expended to dig into that level of subtlety -- all since 1995. But ecology was always based on subtleties. I have no problem accepting that all those dots are connected.Reminds me of a scifi flick I saw where hunters went back in time on big game hunts, trying to bag dinosaurs. They could only kill the sick ones about to die anyway, otherwise they would change the timeline cascade, returning to a present time completely different than the one they left. One guy swatted a bug, and they returned to find that the Nazis had won the war and now controlled the world.
PS- The soundtrack was recorded at a Chico State fraternity.
Edits: 10/17/14
However, hyenas are also supposed to be related: I guess they're good at cleaning up the carrion. Glad we don't have them on this continent ;-)
Since the advent of night-vision cameras it has been found out that hyenas do most of the hunting in the Serengeti but regularly have their kills taken away from them by lions.
Yep, the king of beasts is mostly a common thief.
Not that different from human kings but that is another story...
Excellent. There is a reason that balanced ecosystems work better than the alternatives.
Here on the Arizona Colorado Plateau, grazing cattle radically reduced the prairie grasses on public lands so that Pronghorn antelope offspring were no longer hidden in the tall grasses and were easily found by coyotes. The coyote population increased tremendously, the Pronghorn population started to tank.
So, one would think that the solution was to stop allowing private ranchers to use public lands to feed their herds so that the ecosystem would once again balance, right? No, the Arizona solution was to start open season on coyotes, leaving the cause of the problem completely intact.
Wolves seem to be the only sure way to keep the coyote population down.
A few years ago I saw another documentary about reintroduced wolves (it may have been Yellowstone too, not sure anymore). Anyways that area did have a severe coyote problem, so much so that the state encouraged the killing of them and paid a bounty for each for many years.
Didn't make a blind bit of difference and coyote numbers steadily increased until the reintroduction of wolves.
I can understand that cattle ranchers don't like having cows killed but then again the benefit to the land as a whole seems to be enough to allow the state to reimburse ranchers for every cow killed by wolves as long as it is confirmed.
I've grown to dislike most aspects of "cowboy culture". I tried being open-minded about it all when I first moved into the cattle producing regions, but I gradually became convinced that the redeeming features of cowboy culture are few and far between - even though seldom is heard a discouraging word, and the skies are not cloudy all day.
There is logic to it throughout but some of the cause and effects are potentially tenuous. Also, may be too soon to tell for some of that. Cool anyhow especially if it's all solid science.
based on when my neighbors,you can see the house from the top of the hill when the leaves are off, to the north essentialy eliminated coyotes to protect their sheep and the deer population exploded . Why they didn't just get a llama to put in the pastures to protect the sheep is another story.
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