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Post by apexpredator7 on May 15, 2012 15:15:01 GMT -5
Thinking about thias an animal introduced has to be: not poisonous/venemous doesn't occupy a niche held by another animal can't outcompete an animal provides food for native species fills an empty/falling niche preferably vegetarian/ insectivore
all this in mind I believe that lemmings could be introduced to britaain as they provide for fox/weasels/badgers and I can't see them outcompeting feild/house mice and door mice live in trees so wont be affected and that rabbits and hares eat grass which is plentiful
you can come up with your own suggestions or discuss others
only hypothetical
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Post by Venomous Dragon on May 15, 2012 17:54:53 GMT -5
Not venomous? why not? I guess i cant suggest reintroducing the Ora to australia
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Post by jumbo1 on Aug 3, 2012 10:05:51 GMT -5
how about introducing wild boars to the african plains?
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Post by Super Communist on Aug 3, 2012 12:50:20 GMT -5
^I don't think they would be able to survive very long.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Aug 3, 2012 22:53:14 GMT -5
How many of the african predators that would consider a boar as a possible prey item act as individuals? leopards, thats pretty much it. Prides of lions, clans of hyenas and packs of wild dogs could all possibly take adults. tigers prey on boar lone lions could too.
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Post by jumbo1 on Aug 3, 2012 22:57:18 GMT -5
another introduction that could work is hippos in the amazon. Only a very small calf would be vulnerable to jaguars and crocodilians.
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Post by Anomonyous on Aug 3, 2012 23:11:00 GMT -5
They're huge though. Introducing massive herbivores to a new ecosystem is bound to provoke a reaction of some sort.
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Post by Ultimategrid on Aug 4, 2012 4:42:56 GMT -5
another introduction that could work is hippos in the amazon. Only a very small calf would be vulnerable to jaguars and crocodilians. From wikipedia. In the late 1980s, Pablo Escobar kept four hippos in a private menagerie at his residence in Hacienda Napoles, 100 km east of MedellĂn, Colombia, after buying them in New Orleans. They were deemed too difficult to seize and move after Escobar's fall, and hence left on the untended estate. By 2007, the animals had multiplied to 16 and had taken to roaming the area for food in the nearby Magdalena River.[44] In 2009, two adults and one calf escaped the herd, and after attacking humans and killing cattle, one of the adults (called "Pepe") was killed by hunters under authorization of the local authorities.[45][46] It is unknown what kind of effects the presence of hippos might have on the ecosystem in Colombia. According to experts interviewed by W Radio Colombia, the animals could survive in the Colombian jungles. It is believed that the lack of control from the Colombian government, which is not used to dealing with this species, could result in human fatalities It doesn't seem that bad in the sense that the hippos would survive, but we don't know what kind of impact they could have.
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Post by Super Communist on Aug 4, 2012 8:51:41 GMT -5
I think its likely that they would fertilize the water and feed the fish, like they do in Africa.
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Post by Ultimategrid on Aug 4, 2012 18:46:15 GMT -5
I think its likely that they would fertilize the water and feed the fish, like they do in Africa. But they could do something else, something bad endangering a certain plant, or outcompeteing other animals. However considering that hippos are gigantic herbivores incapable of hiding (like the cane toads), if they turned out to be a problem it would be nothing we couldn't undo.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Aug 4, 2012 22:59:06 GMT -5
pygmy hippos in south america might work out.
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Post by LeopJag on Aug 5, 2012 1:17:32 GMT -5
On CF i was reading the one currently about reintroducing the polar bear to Antarctica.....here's my take on it: i don't think the cold would be an issue for these bears,,, though for the first while, the PB will most likely have a serious effect on the populations on all of the species of penguins and seals native there because they have not had the chance to evolve a defensive strategy against such a predator...much the same as when the indigenous Americans were hit so hard by contagious diseases which they had no resistance to, that were brought by the Europeans. should any of the said remaining surviving populations evolve adaptations to increase their survival - good...though many would have already been driven to extinction.
the PB would be serious competition with the leopard seal and would prey on it as well.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Aug 5, 2012 1:22:30 GMT -5
Emperor penguins would be hit pretty hard IMO
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Post by Super Communist on Aug 5, 2012 1:23:35 GMT -5
Could a diet of penguins even sustain a polar bear population? From what I understand they require a lot of fat.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Aug 5, 2012 1:26:42 GMT -5
In the winter emperor penguins would be like fish in barrel even if they didnt provide much there would be so many and would be so easy to catch that it would still be worth it.
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