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Think of the worst invasive species you know. Kudzu: smothering trees and houses, growing a foot a day. Burmese pythons: stripping the Everglades of small animals. Asian carp: hoovering streams clean of plankton and swimming toward the Great Lakes.
They all came from somewhere else, arrived with no natural predators, outcompeted local flora and fauna, and took over whole ecosystems. But they all have their limitations: Kudzu dies in a hard freeze, carp can't tolerate salt water, and pythons can't cover long distances very fast. (Thankfully.)
Now imagine a species with all those benefits—foreign origin, no enemies—and no roadblocks to dominance: One that is indifferent to temperature, comfortable in many landscapes, able to run a lot faster than you, and muscular enough to leave a big dent in your car. That describes any of the possibly 6 million feral hogs in the United States, the most intractable invasives that most people have never heard of.
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USDA research estimates that, on their own, hog populations will expand their range by about 4 to 8 miles per year. But Mayer jokes darkly that they have relocated at "about 70 miles per hour—which is the speed of the pickups taking them down the highway."
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This story originally appeared on wired.com.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2023, @11:13AM (2 children)
We are being invaded by muslims. More come each year. They breed like rabbits. What they have done to other countries is horrifying. They will claim to be persecuted minorities until there is a significant number of them and then the violence starts. It has already started here. There is no fear. They can attack others with impunity. Our culture is dying. Perhaps it deserves to die if it cannot withstand this invasion. Sadly it will be that those who support and promote these invaders will be those who feel the greatest pain when retribution comes. How do these invaders thank their hosts. How do they treat others. What mercy do they have. Other countries know this all too well. Blocked off places. Fires blazing in the streets. Theft, rape, murder. When will we learn. Defend your country or it will soon belong to others.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday March 24 2023, @03:24PM (1 child)
It turns out there's an excellent cure which could solve both problems at once: just toss a dead feral pig into each Muslim grave, and voila, no more "Muslim issue" (this was actually done in Afghanstan, and proved very effective at halting suicide bombers... until the brass put an end to it as "bigoted").
"I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them" -- Qur'an 8:12
"He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah" -- Al Baqara 2:173
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2023, @10:44AM
The problem with this plan is that you need to kill them first. Preferably before they kill you. Around here people go to lengths to bury the head and innards of pigs on specific properties and specific places with the idea being that one day down the track someone will find all of this and understand their what they believe in is pure bullcrap that is not worth having in their lives. This may take a while.