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On Topic Discussion Massive cat kill planned by the Australian government

I'm not learned in evolutionary adaptations to say, but it would seem likely that competition led to an elevated arms race in the toxins arena.
 
The Simpsons introduce frogs to Australia


We just have to look in our own back yard to see what invasive species can do: killer bees (escaped from Brazil), zebra mussels (originally from southern Russia and Ukraine), the Asian carp...

And it's not only animals. It's plants as well: Japanese knotweed, purple loosestrife (brought in by settlers for their gardens), giant hogweed (brought in from Central Asia)...
 
In my home state of Arkansas, we had several invasive species of flora that were aggressively spreading, including Japanese Honeysuckle, privet, kudzu, Paulownia (Empress Tree), Mimosa, and Salt Cedar.

In New Mexico, many people are unaware the infamous tumbleweed is actually an invasive, Russian Thistle, and thought to have invaded in a shipment of flax seed around 1870.

And of course everyone has heard of all the tropical snakes now introduced to the Everglades. It's a mess.
 
^ There's a good reason they're called 'invasive species'. Nature is usually pretty good at maintaining a balance, but not where human interference is concerned.

(I didn't know that about the tumbleweed. Who'd a thunk it?)
 
The tumbleweed story is a bit obscured by misnomer. In Hollywood parlance, it becomes referred to as a tumbling sage. The sagebrush makes a similar form, but isn't the tumbleweed.

Most of the sagebrush in North America is in the genus Artemesia, but are not tumbleweeds.

Common names, as well as misnomers, are often at the root of popular misconceptions, such as people being wary of sumac tea merely because they are familiar with the name of ONE sumac when learning poison ivy, oak, and sumac. None of the entire rest of the sumac family is poisonous and the range of the poisonous one is very limited.
 
Alnitak said:
I always wondered why Australia has so many extremely poisonous species. Is it how the ecosystem fights invaders?
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Seriously i thought you are smarter than this.
Have you visited Australia before ? There are no less or more extremely poisonous species in Australia than other places around the world.
Not sure what have you watched to form this conclusion.
 
Telstra said:
Seriously i thought you are smarter than this.
Have you visited Australia before ? There are no less or more extremely poisonous species in Australia than other places around the world.
Not sure what have you watched to form this conclusion.
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What happened to your fractured English? The only error is that you didn't capitalise 'I'.
 
pat grimshaw said:
OP, do you perhaps have Australian ancestry? So that you are compelled to think of Australia as your country by proxy?


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No. Upon rethought, I'm glad of it. Please do keep your toxins there in your far corner of the world, evidently so boring that you are obsessed with American partisan politics. What a dry climate indeed it must be. It's obvious the Magnificent Spiders isn't the most misbegotten creature among the beasties.

The difference would be that I don't presume to intervene in Australian fauna or politics, whereas you go out of your way to foster further division in American politics, injecting them into threads that are wholly apolitical, and with the blessings of the management.

One can only assume there is an interest in fostering the harrying of members. It figures. Welcome back.

It's just how it is, obviously. It used to be against the CofC to bring material from one thread into the next. Now that has changed to only cover the no flame forum materials. It used to additionally explicitly forbid the quoting of private emails or comments, now no longer called out apparently. Things change.

Meh.
 
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