Alternate invasive species
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NothingNow
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There are Possums, like the above, and their namesake, the Opossum. Guess which one carved out a niche in North America, and keeps pace with Raccoons.
There are Possums, like the above, and their namesake, the Opossum. Guess which one carved out a niche in North America, and keeps pace with Raccoons.
Aah, the Virginia Opossum of North America. They back down to no one. I've had to hit a possum five times with a broom and three more times with the handle of the broom to get it away from the catfood I put out out for feral cats. Hit her hard three times with a pastry pin the next night. These critters have a hit point bonus.
Cook
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Yes but the descussion was about the Ring Tails. Suddenly mentioning that ugly thing casues confusion.
NothingNow
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And on that, Ring Tails would be interesting to see out and in the world, just like Sugar Gliders (which I would not find surprising if there were already sizable feral populations.)
It's not my fault that fucking Captain Cook decided to name Possums after that thing.
i am WAAY too tired to read over this whole thread, so ill just post an idea
what if, for some reason, mountain lions were introduced to the old world in large numbers? maybe there's some kind of circus exhibit which features them and they get loose, form wild populations in eurasia and possibily in africa? cougars are the most wide-ranging of any cat and can be found in almost any environment in all of the americas. im pretty sure the only habitat that they DONT live in is the tundra up north
what if, for some reason, mountain lions were introduced to the old world in large numbers? maybe there's some kind of circus exhibit which features them and they get loose, form wild populations in eurasia and possibily in africa? cougars are the most wide-ranging of any cat and can be found in almost any environment in all of the americas. im pretty sure the only habitat that they DONT live in is the tundra up north
NothingNow
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Well, Panthers/Cougars would be interesting, but, the Old world already has a wide selection of Big Cats in the same ecological niche that are far better adapted to dealing with Humans. Especially the Leopard, which is probably the most adaptable of the Big cats, and has a similar climatic distribution to Panthers/Cougars.
Last summer, my whole town was leiteraly covered with some kind of Chinese beatle. How they fot to New Jersey I don't know. Well my mom grows a garden. Every plant was literaly devoured. The feds sprayed some pesticides. It helped a little. They finally all died in the winter though, thank God.
But most are restricted to Subsaharan Africa and The Indian subcontinent:The Urals and Caucaus would probably make a great place for them, possibly even the Alps.
well i remember the game wardens telling everyone they were crazy to believe Cougars were in the area of Texas i live in even though many people claimed to see them & i didn't really believe them myself but when i was 14 one jump out in the road bout 6ft from me in a pasture & scared the shit outta me. i've seen on 2 more times since then & tryed to shoot it to show the Game Warden they're real but noone has got one. wierd thing is the 3 i've seen & all the other sightings have been solid black ones
however, im pretty sure cougars are more adaptable; they can eat more different kinds of food than, say, tigers
The Virginia Opossum is the ultimate urban scavenger. They are fearless. I've hit them with brooms to get them out of the cat food. They'll just stand there and hiss at you until you hit them hard with the stick end three or four times.
Has the fire ant, S. invicta, made it to Africa yet?
The Muscovy duck of Mexico and the US (favorite food of the Aztecs) has caused trouble in Hawaii. It does well in urban parks in the US because of its extreme aggression in protecting its young, They can fight a 'possum and win. Could they make it in Africa and the warmer parts of Europe?
Gotta love Felis concolor, the puma, cougar, mountain lion, nitney lion. It's a housecat upsized to bigger than an African leopard and has similar habits to the leopard, though it tends to bury its prey rather than stashing it in a tree. This species is supremely adaptable and is the most widespread big cat in the world with a range from Patagonia to the Canadian tundra. They are adapting to urban habitats and have been found in the northeastern US where they had been hunted to extinction. The genetically isolated Florida Panter subspecies has been reinvigorated by the introduction of 13 urban adapted Texas cougars. Urban TX females haven't been able to raise lots of kits in the Everglades, but many Texas cougar males have been quite successful with the Florida Panther females. Watch out Florida, the genetic bottleneck is gone.
I also think cougars may be established in the UK already. I believe the Exmoor cats are real and are probably cougars. F. concolor might already be established in Europe, and would do well in China and Siberia as well.
When dogs start disappearing, you know you've got cougars, They love to eat dogs and a backyard fence just makes it easier to catch a dog. Dogs like to move around and nip in a fight. Fences make that harder to do cougars rely on stunning blows from their massive paws. Dog has no chance if it's cornered and a cougar can hop a pretty high fence with a dead German Shepard in its jaws.
mojojojo
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They can get pretty hefty http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2008/11/supersize_cougars.php
well i live in a town of 1200 & the 3 i've seen were 6-25 miles out in the country. the last one was last summer i'd just gotten a new SKS & saw something bout 500yds away & thought it was a coyote but when i shot it stretched itself out so i could see. i think i hit him twice but at 500yds with FMJ's in a plowed field i never found any blood