Hybrid Photo Thread

[Steveo]

It may not be an ecological problem at all if a few got out - they might die and that would be the end of it. But without knowing for certain it's a risk that we should not intentionally take. Prevention is far easier than cleaning up.

As an example, U.S. Farmers lose billions every year because one guy wanted to bring the European Starling to the new world. He released a few dozen in NY's Central Park and now they are estimated to number over 100 million birds across the contiguous 48. The English House Sparrow has a similar story. The selfishness of just a few people can alter an entire nation's ecology forever.

[CrazyHedgehog]

we had red squirrels, someone brought in grey squirrels, they took over, now the red squirrel is very rare!

[Greg'sGarters]

It may not be an ecological problem at all if a few got out - they might die and that would be the end of it. But without knowing for certain it's a risk that we should not intentionally take. Prevention is far easier than cleaning up.

I pray that no one would ever intentionally release ANY captive animal into the wild unless it was a native species and they were a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Unfortunately, people still do it.

As an example, U.S. Farmers lose billions every year because one guy wanted to bring the European Starling to the new world. He released a few dozen in NY's Central Park and now they are estimated to number over 100 million birds across the contiguous 48. The English House Sparrow has a similar story. The selfishness of just a few people can alter an entire nation's ecology forever.

True, true. That guy actually released them into the US because Shakespeare had mentioned the European Starling in one of his works, and this crazy guy thought that it would be a good idea to take all the species of birds that Shakespeare mentioned in his plays and release them into the US. .

[Stefan-A]

we had red squirrels, someone brought in grey squirrels, they took over, now the red squirrel is very rare!

Yeah. It's happened countless times and still people refuse to acknowledge that it's a bad idea to release animals where they don't occur naturally.

Here's another example:



This little ******* already outcompeted one native species and is in the process of wiping out amphibians and bird colonies along the coast.

[Stefan-A]

True, true. That guy actually released them into the US because Shakespeare had mentioned the European Starling in one of his works, and this crazy guy thought that it would be a good idea to take all the species of birds that Shakespeare mentioned in his plays and release them into the US. .

If I only had a time machine and a hammer... Well, I have the latter.

[Stefan-A]

I moved the mink stuff it It's oh so quiet.

[ConcinusMan]

my eastern x albino checkered hybrid female. she passed away last summer.

That is pretty, but is it an improvement over a pure checkered or pure eastern? certainly not.