Australia has the worst rate of animal extinction in the world. why? cats.

[dyna mo]

15 million feral cats in Australia, each kills and eats 5 native animals each and every night

15 million cats x 5 = 75 million dead native animals every day.

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/...l-cats/5494418

[Mutt]

Evil looking mangy mass murderers, 15 million of them in Australia, each one kills 5 other animals every night.

[dyna mo]

Originally Posted by Mutt

Evil looking mangy mass murderers, 15 million of them in Australia, each one kills 5 other animals every night.

that's a beast of a cat!

[AdultKing]

I've seen feral cats that are huge, it's no wonder they do so much damage.

We have lots of problems from many animal imports, all of which are destroying native animals and habitat.

Cane Toads
Foxes
Rabbits
Cats
Camels (worlds largest population of camels in Oz)

the list goes on.

[L-Pink]

Damn, I had no idea.

[Sly]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

I've seen feral cats that are huge, it's no wonder they do so much damage.

We have lots of problems from many animal imports, all of which are destroying native animals and habitat.

Cane Toads
Foxes
Rabbits
Cats
Camels (worlds largest population of camels in Oz)

the list goes on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_feral_camel

I never would have imagined. Is there a camel hunting season? Are they edible?

[Bourke]

Camels are eaten. You gotta slow cook em though.
The thing about domestic cats is that once they go feral it take two to three generations and they practically double in size. We used to get feral cats bigger than foxes. And it's not just feral cats that are the issue. A lot of bird species get decimated by domestic cats which the owners let come in and out of the house as they please. We used to get domestic cats coming to try and take chickens all the time. Got to the point I would just shoot em and then bury them.

[MaDalton]

i heard camel milk is good - never tried it

[georgeyw]

Originally Posted by AdultKing

I've seen feral cats that are huge, it's no wonder they do so much damage.

We have lots of problems from many animal imports, all of which are destroying native animals and habitat.

Cane Toads
Foxes
Rabbits
Cats
Camels (worlds largest population of camels in Oz)

the list goes on.

I drove to Darwin recently and I think I have found the fix to our Camel population.

Make a few more roads through the center of Australia and send a few road trains up there. The Camels seemed to be quite fond of running infront of trucks for what reason, I do not know, perhaps they are reverting to their jihad culture and are yet to figure out how to make bombs.

The Cane Toad problem is getting worse and worse - they are spreading further west now and there seems to be no stopping the little bastards.

[dyna mo]

what's the story with the cane toad?

[SilentKnight]

Something about the OP made me think of the thylacine in New Zealand.

Extinct now by the hand of man - not cats, though.

[georgeyw]

Originally Posted by dyna mo

what's the story with the cane toad?

They were introduced to get rid of some beetle that ate the sugar cane and it turns out, that wasn't such a bright idea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toads_in_Australia

They have spread from Queensland (pretty sure it was Far north) to almost all of Queensland, into NSW(far north) and most recently Northern Territory. Saw them in a few places up the center just recently. A mate i was travelling with was a local of Darwin until 4 or 5 years ago and he could not believe there were cane toads in some spots as he had never seen them there before.

[wehateporn]

Must be Global Warming

[Bourke]

Silent Knight- you thinking about Tasmania?? Or did NZ have them as well? They killed out in Tassie by European settlers although there are unconfirmed sightings now and then.

[brassmonkey]

they taste soooo gooooood

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by Bourke

Silent Knight- you thinking about Tasmania?? Or did NZ have them as well? They killed out in Tassie by European settlers although there are unconfirmed sightings now and then.

They were also known as tazmanian tigers, yes.

The last one died in captivity in 1936. After that they were thought to be extinct, although there's been unconfirmed sightings over the years (as you say).

There was even a project started to try and clone thylacines from an intact embryo...but last I head they were unsuccessful.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

[John-ACWM]

That is a freakishly big one.

[AdultKing]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

They were also known as tazmanian tigers, yes.

The Thylacine never existed in New Zealand, it existed in Tasmania, mainland southern Australia and in New Guinea.