Originally posted by Darth Truculent
Bluesteel you sound like the Japanese & Faroesse . . . I guess you don't care about the planet
For an example that I don't pretend is perfect (it has lots of obvious flaws with it but as a whole still stands true) think of the Spanish Civil War. Anyone who didn't support the Republicans didn't necessarily love fascism or not care about freedom. They just noticed that much like the captain of the Sea Shepherds is a charlatan and a liar the Republican forces were primarily supplied and supported by Joseph Stalin.
Originally posted by red g jacks
i read not to long ago there's around 3000 or so tigers total left in the wild, and that there's a larger of them in captivity (somewhere around 5000, iirc). that's including all the subspecies.
It's horrific that a private citizen with no qualifications was allowed to keep a whole number percentage of an endangered species.
yea, i heard about that.
i honestly think there should be some sort of line we draw between what type of animals people can own, even in regard to the ones that aren't endangered. its not too uncommon for wild animals people keep as pets to get released into an environment they're exotic to and still manage to survive, and that seems like something that could easily cause problems.
one story that comes to mind is a while back when i lived in florida, there was some news story about a giant python they found with an alligator inside it. the snake was most likely a pet that was released, as it isn't a native species.
Originally posted by red g jacks
yea, i heard about that.i honestly think there should be some sort of line we draw between what type of animals people can own, even in regard to the ones that aren't endangered. its not too uncommon for wild animals people keep as pets to get released into an environment they're exotic to and still manage to survive, and that seems like something that could easily cause problems.
one story that comes to mind is a while back when i lived in florida, there was some news story about a giant python they found with an alligator inside it. the snake was most likely a pet that was released, as it isn't a native species.
And just two hours east of here, in Ocala, there's a river with a huge population of wild monkeys--descendants of a few monkeys who escaped during the filming of one of the Tarzan movies.