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[johnny]

Species displace other species all the time.

Cane toads.

 

[droenn]

Species displace other species all the time.

Cane toads.

Not biting

 

[johnny]

Lol, I was actually being serious!

 

[Nambra]

 

[pink poodle]

Species displace other species all the time.

Cane toads.

You're right! Humans did displace them. QLD is the great cane toad diaspora.

 

[hifiandmtb]

Humans brought cane toads. But I think we all knew this...

 

[link1896]

Summed up best here.

Btw, the Matrix is 20 years old! Feeling old gents?

 

[johnny]

Humans brought cane toads. But I think we all knew this...

Sure, but aren't humans part of nature too?

 

[droenn]

Lol, I was actually being serious!

Well humans took that species from one spot (where it evolved) to a new spot (where it didnt) and it was able, through no fault of its own, able to exploit an environment where other species hadn't being exposed to it. And yes, this can happen through other non-human means - but relates to my next point...

Sure, but aren't humans part of nature too?

Yes - of course, we are a product of our evolution alongside all the other species. Difference is we have a capacity to understand the consequences of our decisions (or at least we should) we gives us a moral obligation, to respect the rest of life that evolved alongside us.

 

[Flow-Rider]

Toads don't have many predators here either but there are some.

 

[Haakon]

Toads don't have many predators here either but there are some.

Mowers and golf clubs primarily...

 

[johnny]

Well humans took that species from one spot (where it evolved) to a new spot (where it didnt) and it was able, through no fault of its own, able to exploit an environment where other species hadn't being exposed to it. And yes, this can happen through other non-human means - but relates to my next point...



Yes - of course, we are a product of our evolution alongside all the other species. Difference is we have a capacity to understand the consequences of our decisions (or at least we should) we gives us a moral obligation, to respect the rest of life that evolved alongside us.

Agreed, but whether we do or don’t, it’s all a natural occurrence, right? (And as it turns out, we didn’t)

 

[Flow-Rider]

Mowers and golf clubs primarily...

This little bloke makes a feast of them.
Keelback snake

 

[Dales Cannon]

Mowers and golf clubs primarily...

Dont forget the Michelin.

I had keelbacks in my dam in Rocky. To be honest that is what I thought I was fishing out of the pool.

 

[stirk]

Btw, the Matrix is 20 years old! Feeling old gents?

Well I do now, thanks!

 

[Flow-Rider]

Dont forget the Michelin.

I had keelbacks in my dam in Rocky. To be honest that is what I thought I was fishing out of the pool.

There's quite a lot of them around Forest lake, a lot of people mistaken them the other way around for eastern browns and the inevitable happens to them.

 

[hifiandmtb]

What’s the inevitable? Death?

Humans have no reason to kill a snake if that snake is not posing an imminent threat. Plus it’s illegal.

 

[born-again-biker]

Well I do now, thanks!

Yeah me too.

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[Flow-Rider]

What’s the inevitable? Death?

Humans have no reason to kill a snake if that snake is not posing an imminent threat. Plus it’s illegal.

A lot of people get the snake catcher out these days but there will be a few that do the other.

 

[pink poodle]

People love killing snakes. It makes them feel big and strong.