Why don't we just move all the rhinos to Australia?
>far fewer poachers
>too bulky to be taken out by boomerangs
>will put the kangaroos in their place
>they wont have any natural predators
>similar climate to their native range
>ecosystem's already fucked sideways anyway so they wont make anything worse
>continent is shaped like a rhino head
it just makes sense. could save the species. I drew a diagram to illustrate the plan.
Rhinos would face another issue they already do in Africa. Seething livestock farmers who think the Rhinos will kill their cattle. Aussie farmers won't tolerate them
>Why don't we move Rhinos to Australia, the de-facto vassal of China
They wouldn't live very long
its over for rhinocels
I hate people so god damn much
We aren't entitled to the entire planet
>We aren't entitled to the entire planet
uhhh... yeah we are.
isnt there lots of chinamen in australia?
Chinamen turn into regular civilized cucks when the CCP lose the grasp on them. They won't greet you with a "Have you eaten already my fellow bugman?" like they do in their mainland.
There are rhinos in India already, there's no need to put them elsewhere.
Also the real reason is farms and farmers. You don't need another reason to not put them there, this one completely dismantles the idea.
>far fewer poachers
>implying hordes of poachers wont just shift over to australia and try to market dried joeys to TCM
In addition, black rhinos (the only rhinos particularly suited to very arid enviroments) are very susceptible to iron poisoning, a big problem if they were stuck in the giant iron dustbowl that is australia
most african poachers are impoverished natives looking to cash in on china money
I don't think abbos are as inclined to that kind of behavior, and if they were I'd trust the aussie government to crack down on it more easily than the various african countries do
>I don't think abbos are as inclined to that kind of behavior,
>I'd trust the aussie government to crack down on it more easily than the various african countries do
how do you people function in day to day life
>move the animals getting decimated by the Chinese to a Chinese colony
gonna be a no from me, anon
If i remember correctly SA started rhino horn farms, which should put an end to the fucking poaching, seeing as how you just need to put the animal to sleep to cut the horn and it grows back.
But after the rhino loses the horn, it can't make money anymore and it will be expensive to maintain. Won't they just cull them soon and keep just a few to reproduce? I wouldn't mind it if they used its meat to feed people, but I doubt that
>and it grows back
You don't kill the sheep after shearing it
>I drew a diagram to illustrate the plan.
Oh man you should be on tedx
Dude, the Australian government won't even admit that Thylacines exist. You think they want MORE endangered species?
>The Australian government won't admit that thylacines exist
What? I'm going to need a rundown.
Governments the world over refuse to acknowledge endangered species, especially critically endangered ones, so that they don't have to enact no-build zones or do paperwork or blah blah this blah blah that. It happens in the US too, we have catamounts where I live but the US gov says there aren't any within 500 miles of me.
I remember hearing the Michigan DNR tried to pay a dude 50 grand to try and disprove the presence of cougars in the upper peninsula
He couldn't do it
>People: exist
>People: we need huuuuueg space for our aggriculture
>Animal species be like: XD I'll just go whenever the FUCK I want
>People: And I took that personally!
>African people: we be too poor to do the same
>Animals in Africa: damn right
>Poachers: not so fast!
>The other humans outside of Africa: And we took THAT personally! *pays to kill animals in saffari trips*
>Chinks: *devours everything*
go back
Can't go more back than Wauf.
Because mammals are boring.
I enjoy being able to drive through the outback without the fear of my car being rammed to pieces by an angry rhinoceros.
>t. doesn't drive in the Outback because he would already be concerned about hitting cattle, feral camels and great big red kangaroos that will crash straight through your windscreen and tear your face off if its impact hasn't already killed you...
Yeah but the point is that none of those animals purposely try to smash your car. They just have a bad habit of placing themselves in the middle of the highway.
Camels in australia?
They were perfect pack animals for traversing the Australian desert before roads were built. A bunch of them got abandoned and started wild herds.
do camels even have natural predators in their home range, it doesnt seem like theres any big predators in the middle east for camels, like lions are for giraffes
Lions, Leopards and Syrian Brown Bear
>Lions, Leopards
since when were these above the sahara
they use to be like just a few centuries ago. before they all got shot and stuffed by men in safari helmets and handlebar mustaches.
yeah lions existed in the Arabian peninsula as recently as the 19th century
and leopards still exist in some parts of the middle east and india, but their numbers have dwindled harshly
Jesus Christ they killed fucking everything
Large carnivore extinction is fairly recent. Once Humans figured out poisoned bait, it was game over for lions, wolves, bears, and pretty much anything else.
there used to be jaguars in the southern US. They're actually starting to come back up because humans have been sissified enough so that they don't get hunted anymore. I always thought America was missing some large predators
mountain lions, bears, wolves?
there was also the american cheetah, short faced bear, the american lion, sabretooths, and dire wolves during the ice age, moose, condors and elephants seals are like the last holdout of the ice age
Wolves have been JUST'd across all of the mainland US. every time some legislation is brought up to reintroduce them, farmers who have gone their whole adult lives without even seeing a wolf start crying "BUT MUH SHEEPS".
Mountain Lions and bears have gotten pretty rare too. California for instance use to have grizzly bears, it's even on their flag, but there are none left in the state.
mountain lions are pretty common, so much so theyre invading the suburbs
Then we must kill them all. The world must be free of megafauna that threatens man
What kept wolves out of the Southeast? Clearly mountains and heat aren't a problem based on the rest of their range.
people, it was only 40 years ago
You have to be joking. That historical range estimate was created by Hall in 1981, not for the extent of wolves in 1981
There were already red wolves in the southeast. But they're pretty similar and interbreed with gray wolves.
It's even worse than you think
>mountain lions
Mountain Lions are actually descended from South American invaders. There a population bottleneck with them because all of the North American Mountain Lions died at the end of the Pleistocene.
>bears
American Brown bears are genetically almost indistinguishable from their Siberian counterparts, because they are mostly descended from Eurasian invaders that came over 12,000 years ago
>wolves
The same goes for wolves.
North America got absolutely fucking demolished during the Younger Dryas.
Elephants are cooler
fuck big cats, zero sympathy for species adapted to hunting hominids
I'd rather have wolves than wild dogs, I suppose. But grizzlies and cougars can fuck off to the wastelands of Canada.
>One schoolteacher in the Nepalese Himalayas famously became a full-time leopard hunter because leopards killed half the kids in his class.
good man, the only sane response, other nations should collaborate to exterminate these pests instead of funding proxy war #8943450 or propping up cannibal warlord #21019. Too bad most hunting of various animals is out of myopic avarice rather than pragmatic defense.
>I USED TO RULE THE WORLD
There is still a small population of lions in India.
Leopards have killed heaps of people in India, Nepal and Pakistan in recent years.
One schoolteacher in the Nepalese Himalayas famously became a full-time leopard hunter because leopards killed half the kids in his class.
extinct for over 50 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_bear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_lion
In Persia
Is it legal to kill them on sight and en masse?
I think you can kill them, but probably only in national parks, private property, or areas designated for shooting.
Yes, but the catch is that firearms are banned, so you need to use a Boomerang
That's unironically much more illegal than using a gun. Only aboriginals are allowed to hunt using traditional methods
Yeah, the afghans brought them.
>ecosystem's already fucked sideways anyway so they wont make anything worse
He wasn't exaggerating anon
Australia is already planned for rare earth mine stripping once we pull off a Russia with China so no.
can rhinos use their horns like a pickaxe?
No, the horns are only made of keratin and wouldn't make for good tools.
But I like where you're going with this, maybe we could make some kind of metal cone to go over the horn?
Marsupials have had it too good for too long I say
yeah, down with safe spaces.