Re: Earth after people

In article <pnimp315uc711d0jm66ab5n9f2ulj6167e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<philospher77@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:57:39 -0800, Steve Hix
> <sehix@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <Xns9A30B945DA477genewardsmithsbcglob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> Steve Hix <sehix@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> >> news:sehix-7880E3.17175725012008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
> >> 
> >> >> None of which will do them any good if they are trapped inside of
> >> >> fences. 
> >> > 
> >> > Judging from staff comments subsequent to the death of a zoo
visitor
> >> > by a tiger (he and his pals were actively harassing the cats, and
one
> >> > of the cats used one of the young men to get up and out of the
> >> > enclosure) at the San Francisco zoo, the tigers have long been
> >> > *capable* of getting out, they hadn't previously been motivated to
do
> >> > it. 
> >> 
> >> That wall was suspect even before the tiger breakout, which may end
up a 
> >> legal problem for the zoo. But a few tigers escaping are not going to
be 
> >> able to establish a viable population in any case.
> >
> >That much has become clear, certainly.
> >
> >A few escaping wouldn't be much of an issue; releasing all of them in 
> >some response to widespread death among humans could be a bit more of a

> >problem.
> >
> Of course, there is also the issue that a lot of zoo animals are on
> some sort of birth control.  There are only so many spots that one can
> place tigers and lions, and thus they try to keep them from breeding
> in zoos.  I'm not sure if the control methods are chemical or
> surgical, so that may or may not have a long term impact.
> 
> The bigger problem is probably going to be states like Texas that have
> a lot of tigers and lions in private attractions and as pets.
> 

Who will it be a problem for? As far as what, it's going to be a new
ecological habitat, anyway. Things like that tend to balance out, once
it is not interfered with and just happens.

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