Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Do they trespass into our range, or have we trespassed constantly into their range, forcing this behaviour? One thing I know about wild animals is that they will not come near humans if they can help it. Seems to me that Homo Sapiens are the real destructive vermin on the planet! Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Larry Bullis <kingfisher at halcyon.com>wrote: > Humans are NOT overpopulated? > > On 7/11/2011 2:40 PM, Chris Crawford wrote: >> >>> > In Indiana, they're vermin pure and simple. I've hit two of them with >>> my >>> > car >>> > over the years because the idiotic creatures wait till a car is too >>> close >>> > to >>> > stop, then they leap onto the road in front of you. One of them >>> actually >>> > jumped onto the road and slammed into the side of my car! >>> > >>> > They're so overpopulated now that we're beginning to see them in the >>> > middle >>> > of this city of 250,000. That was unheard of when I was young, when >>> deer >>> > populations were better controlled. The state's finally allowing more >>> > hunting to thin the herds because the overpopulation is actually >>> beginning >>> > to hurt the deer because there's not enough food for them all. We're >>> > seeing >>> > deer with stunted growth because of overpopulation. Some of the herds >>> have >>> > as many as 100 of them traveling together. A group like that can >>> destroy a >>> > farm in hours. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > Leica Users Group. > See > http://leica-users.org/**mailman/listinfo/lug<http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug>for > more information >