This is a big spider

LMAO! We have awesome shit here.

From what I've heard, Florida has had experienced the exploding tree problem. That's the joy of introducing foreign species.

California has had problems with them. I'm always reminded of that scene from Jurassic Park when Ellie Sattler grabs a plant and says "this shouldn't be here. You picked it because it's pretty but it's highly toxic."

Only this is a goddamn BOMB. Like something out of a video game. It's kinda humorous though that the most dangerous place on Earth has a hard time dealing with fluffy bunnies. Are they simply too cute and when they look at all your scary animals they go "awwwwwww"?
 
We have these tiny little ones that you can sometimes barely see called the Brown Recluse. But they can do serious damage if their bite goes untreated. People have lost bits of themselves due to tissue deterioration and infection.

Yeah, I've heard about the Brown Recluse.

We have a recluse of our own, but I don't think they're anywhere near as bad.

Nasty.
 
California has had problems with them. I'm always reminded of that scene from Jurassic Park when Ellie Sattler grabs a plant and says "this shouldn't be here. You picked it because it's pretty but it's highly toxic."

Only this is a goddamn BOMB. Like something out of a video game. It's kinda humorous though that the most dangerous place on Earth has a hard time dealing with fluffy bunnies. Are they simply too cute and when they look at all your scary animals they go "awwwwwww"?

Fucking rabbits! Camels and cane toads are more of an issue this days. Well, the toads more than the camels. You can't sell toads to the middle east, they don't want 'em.
 
Yeah, I've heard about the Brown Recluse.

We have a recluse of our own, but I don't think they're anywhere near as bad.

Nasty.

I'm not a recluse silly bird. The clinical term is grinch or grouch. The difference being if I reside on a snowy mountain or in a trash can.

Fucking rabbits! Camels and cane toads are more of an issue this days. Well, the toads more than the camels. You can't sell toads to the middle east, they don't want 'em.

How the fuck are camels as a problem? I mean rabbits I get. My friend has rabbits and they fuck. . .like rabbits. The real question is how they haven't covered the Earth in bunnies ages ago. (Before some geek pops in I'm quite aware that rabbits, hares and bunnies are distinct. I simply don't care. Just like unless I'm showing off all crocodilians are gators. Or dinosaurs.) Toads are just kinda bizarre and small. But camels? Even baby camels are easy to spot. Hunting down and shooting all the camels and letting the ants sort em out shouldn't be that hard. I'd ask how you got camels but I imagine it's like how Catalina got buffalo. Once upon a time a movie director was like 'gee I wanna make a movie. I need Bison!' and then he left them. And it turned out at least one of them was a different gender and now they have a herd.
 
Fair enough.

You're pretty cool. I mean, for a n00b.

Are you new here or have I just missed your posts?

N00b? I've been here nearly 11 years! I do admit I am a lurker for the most part. :eek: Although with nearly 12K posts, I guess I have been talking about something all these years.

Talking out of my ass mostly. :rolleyes:
 
N00b? I've been here nearly 11 years! I do admit I am a lurker for the most part. :eek: Although with nearly 12K posts, I guess I have been talking about something all these years.

Talking out of my ass mostly. :rolleyes:

Mostly being vewy vewy quiet. That's only .365 posts per day.
 
N00b? I've been here nearly 11 years! I do admit I am a lurker for the most part. :eek: Although with nearly 12K posts, I guess I have been talking about something all these years.

Talking out of my ass mostly. :rolleyes:

:D

Well I'm glad you decided to visit the GB. We talk out our ass a lot over here, so you'll fit right in. I'm Smiley. :)
 
How the fuck are camels as a problem? I mean rabbits I get. My friend has rabbits and they fuck. . .like rabbits. The real question is how they haven't covered the Earth in bunnies ages ago. (Before some geek pops in I'm quite aware that rabbits, hares and bunnies are distinct. I simply don't care. Just like unless I'm showing off all crocodilians are gators. Or dinosaurs.) Toads are just kinda bizarre and small. But camels? Even baby camels are easy to spot. Hunting down and shooting all the camels and letting the ants sort em out shouldn't be that hard. I'd ask how you got camels but I imagine it's like how Catalina got buffalo. Once upon a time a movie director was like 'gee I wanna make a movie. I need Bison!' and then he left them. And it turned out at least one of them was a different gender and now they have a herd.

Fuck man, sometimes certain species of roos become problematic and need culling. The problem is the bleeding hearts that jump up and down as soon as the word cull is uttered. Because we have such an expanse of empty it can be really hard to track them, the only effective way to cull them is with helicopters and high powered rifles. Pigs, goats, and cats are an issue, too, cats being arguably the biggest issue of them all. Though the town's that have been raided by herds of thirsty camels would likely disagree.
From what I know, camels came over with the Arabs in the 1800s. It would have made sense, with all our sand. That's our main problem, we have perfect conditions for so many species and they go bat shit.
 
Well your problem more accurately is a lack of whatever natural issues kept the species in check. We tend to think exclusively in terms of natural predators but having prey that haven't spent the last few million years specifically adapting to not get eaten by you helps a lot too. Or various other things. It's not like the US doesn't have them too. Anacondas in the Everglades, parrots in lots of places, all sorts of fish that Asian folks keep bringing over (seriously Asianses stop. That shit's not funny.) Wild pigs. Hell horses aren't native they just seem to mostly get along fine. We should go snag some zebras just for shits n giggles.

Cats are also real bad on islands where they may be the new top of the food chain or at least a major component. I'm not an expert on Australia but I'm coming up all ??? when thinking of predators not named Tazmanian Devils and if I'm not mistaken those are not primarily on the mainland. So I can see them being a problem.

As for bleeding hearts it would be nice to get them into a biology class. A healthy ecosystem is best and if something is getting out of hand it cascades to everything else. It's a real "we broke it, we bought it" scenario but if the only way to do it is helicopters and sniper rifles by all fucking means.
 
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