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| Topic Started: May 27 2010, 12:40 PM (1,566 Views) | |
| lamna | May 27 2010, 12:40 PM Post #1 |
 
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I'm not sure if this belongs here but what do you chaps and girl-chaps think about what will happen with conservation if humanity is around for a long time? Let me explain what I'm on about Here in Europe the introduced Ruddy Duck is breeding with native White-headed Ducks and producing fertile hybrids. And some conservationists are worried that eventually there will be no pure White-headed Ducks left. I don't see what the problem with that is, if the hybrids are better at surviving and the white headed genes still continue, what is the problem? I don't see why we are interfering in evolution. Sure Ruddy Ducks aren't supposed to be here, but they are doing no harm at all apart from merging with the White-headed Ducks, and even that is probably a good thing for the White-headed genes, as the Ruddy genes will just help the new duck expand it's range. I see this sort of thing all the time, rare subspecies on the brink and nobody even considering hybridization. This seems more like preservation to me, keeping living museum specimens and not conserving the future of a species. Do you think this might continue into the future, with us trying to keep animals from evolving to preserve the species we have now? |
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| Holben | Jun 1 2010, 03:30 AM Post #46 |
Rumbo a la Victoria
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Not all animals are like dogs. Sometimes, breeding two subspecies together can have consequences for the offspring. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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