Art Eatman
Staff in Memoriam
Cato hit on some good beginnings in another thread. Thought I'd amplify.
I've made the point, occasionally, that a Birder can get a big thrill from just observing a member of a rare and endangered species. OTOH, a hunter needs a healthy population in any game species, in order that there be a surplus from which he can take an animal.
(I define "surplus" in this context to mean that amount of a species over and above some basis required for safe and healthy continuation of that species.)
To a great extent, large predators and homo sap don't co-exist, which is why there are more of us than of them. We're better killers than they are. Absent "natural" predators (a misnomer if ever I heard one.), then homo sap is stuck with the job of controlling wildlife populations among certain species. In North America this includes mostly deer, certain waterfowl, and such as prairie dogs. (I'm generalizing, okay? ) Most other species won't overpopulate their habitat.
Does this seem like reasonable background?
Let's work this over, first, before going on to PDogs in particular, okay?
Art
I've made the point, occasionally, that a Birder can get a big thrill from just observing a member of a rare and endangered species. OTOH, a hunter needs a healthy population in any game species, in order that there be a surplus from which he can take an animal.
(I define "surplus" in this context to mean that amount of a species over and above some basis required for safe and healthy continuation of that species.)
To a great extent, large predators and homo sap don't co-exist, which is why there are more of us than of them. We're better killers than they are. Absent "natural" predators (a misnomer if ever I heard one.), then homo sap is stuck with the job of controlling wildlife populations among certain species. In North America this includes mostly deer, certain waterfowl, and such as prairie dogs. (I'm generalizing, okay? ) Most other species won't overpopulate their habitat.
Does this seem like reasonable background?
Let's work this over, first, before going on to PDogs in particular, okay?
Art