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| Topic Started: May 29 2008, 07:32 PM (3,878 Views) | |
| Livyatan | May 29 2008, 07:32 PM Post #1 |
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This topic is for the discussion of domesticated/feral/introduced species and their roles in future ecosystems. Just so you have some basis for discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced_species |
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| Holben | Apr 24 2010, 10:40 AM Post #76 |
Rumbo a la Victoria
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Camels have better desert adaptations than brumbies, methinks. |
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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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| irbaboon | Apr 24 2010, 11:08 PM Post #77 |
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So they weren't ???? |
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| The Dodo | Apr 25 2010, 12:14 AM Post #78 |
Prime Specimen
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Apparantley they may of been partly omnivorous. |
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| irbaboon | Apr 25 2010, 05:46 PM Post #79 |
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Sort of like pigs? |
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| irbaboon | Apr 26 2010, 06:26 PM Post #80 |
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If humans died out or disapeared pretty quickly (Like in World without Us) it strikes me that Australia and New Zealand might be in pretty bad shape ecologically> Between the two land masses there are a lot of large herbivores (camels,horses,red deer,cattle,etc) but not a lot of large carnivores capable of preying on them. Australia has crocodiles and dingos( how well probably absorb any feral dog populations) and smaller native predators and introduced predators like foxes and feral cats.New Zealand would only have feral dogs and introduced Mustelidae. What do you think the results would be? |
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| Pando | Apr 26 2010, 09:20 PM Post #81 |
Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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Very quick evolution on the predators. Dingoes could start pack hunting again to help cull the herbivores. |
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| irbaboon | Apr 26 2010, 09:25 PM Post #82 |
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Would cats foxes and Mustelidae get bigger? |
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| Toad of Spades | Apr 26 2010, 09:27 PM Post #83 |
Clorothod
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They could. Big cats and wolverines are good examples. |
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| Pando | Apr 26 2010, 09:31 PM Post #84 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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Ferrets have no chance. Only when they're bred with polecats. Wish California were to realize that. |
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| irbaboon | Apr 26 2010, 10:05 PM Post #85 |
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I think the ones in New Zealand have been |
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| Pando | Apr 26 2010, 10:12 PM Post #86 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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The New Zealand ones are half ferret half polecat. Some idiot decided to dump them in New Zealand. Too bad that pure ferrets got the blame. |
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| irbaboon | Apr 26 2010, 10:59 PM Post #87 |
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So big cats and wolverines, (or reasonable facsimiles thereof) what potential do the Australian foxes have? |
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| MitchBeard | Apr 27 2010, 09:34 AM Post #88 |
proud gondwanan
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I don't reckon foxes have much chance of being anything more than a scavenger to be honest. A jackal like deal. I think cats would give dingos a run for their money once they got up to size. It would be cool to see if we got any of the reptiles having another crack at large predator niches, like megalania all over again, or terrestrial crocodiles. The best bet would probably be saltwater crocs evolving to go after water buffalo up north. But its still quite a longshot... |
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| Pando | Apr 30 2010, 03:59 PM Post #89 |
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Obey or I'll send you to the moon
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The Burmese pythons are going to become the Florida apex predators, at least till the world cools again. It's amazing that this is the 2nd topic in this forum, and it is still alive! |
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| Black_Panther | Apr 30 2010, 04:13 PM Post #90 |
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Dunno, in areas like the British Islands or places where the foxes are introduced and there's a lack of large predators (bears, wolves, big cats, etcetera); there might be a chance for foxes to become large, wolf-like predators. As for Australia, well... if dogs are somehow taken down, goannas and cats have a large chance of becoming large predators. Regarding camels in Australia... didn't Trip to Neocene had a couple of species descended from them? I remember seeing antelope-like camels and large, giraffe-like ones. |
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