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cane toad
Topic Started: Feb 4 2011, 01:54 PM (1,338 Views)
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News report today - they've sited Bull Sharks in the Swan River (it's an estuary / brackish where the city of Perth sits on it). But the salt water is much further up the river since man's dredging activities.
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I think it's less to do with pussy-ism and more to do with the fact that we kill over 1.5 mn a year
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Well, maybe their fins shouldn't be so delicious.
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They aren't delicious. Shark Fin Soup is flavoured.

Also, scratch those statistics. Apparently its 100 million shark deaths a year due to fishing
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Revival.

I'm just going to post some things here about the cane toad.

http://www.cracked.com/article_18860_6-animals-that-just-dont-give-f2340k_p2.html

Uh huhhhh. So they have sex with anything, living or dead. Welp, just on more reason to kill 'em.
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Gah, cane toads. I hate cane toads!

Seriously. I wish you Australians would invent some amazing cane-toad killing superweapon and blow the little buggers to smithereens in one big Crowning Moment of Awesome.

Also, Africanised bees sounds interesting, but I live in Africa, and in Africa, we have African bees*. We're not extinct here, so I don't exactly know what the problem is.

*Not actually sure what the species of bee is that we have here. Might not be the same as was hybridised with those European bees.
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That's a good point, people in wartorn, AIDS infested, drought ravaged countries can cope with African bees. I think the USA can just about survive.

And it depends where you live, down in the south you have Cape Bees, but up in north there are African Bees. Though perhaps for not much longer, someone brought Cape bees north in the 90's and now the female workers will enter an African hive, start laying female eggs and just don't stop. Eventually the colony gets too large and collapses.


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It's the hybrids that are dangerous. Mind you, they aren't dangerous if you aren't stupid/lame.
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