Posted on 02/22/2019 5:42:35 AM PST by LibWhacker
ya, ‘path of least resistance’ is a real mystery....
They asked the badgers, “Don’t you know getting free cable is wrong?”
The badgers replied, “We don’t care.”
I wonder what they’d say about free stuff creating more dependent populations.
Squeezing Jello.
Did they ask the Roadrunner what he did before man came along and built roads?
I see squirrels now using telephone lines to cross over roads.......
It is so ridiculous how many humans discount animal intelligence.
In Tokyo, crows were filmed putting large stones on railroad tracks so the trains would break them up into smaller stones to be used for their craws. The crows had also figured out which days were ‘non-burnable’ trash days and head into the city for thrown away food only on those days.
We live by a golf course. Squirrels everywhere. There fav road of transport here is fences. The rats and possums use the fences too.
Yes, some species ARE better at adapting to new conditions than their cousins, and over time they are the survivors. In the long span of time, what is successful conditions to them can change and their ability to adapt will be tested again.
And humans, and “climate change”?
Do we, with massive and economically debilitating expense, change our energy paradigm or do we use our energy and talents to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate? The science of energy and the best economic analysis strongly favors adapting over chasing down every CO2 molecule.
Without our science that is what the rest of LIFE on earth is going to do.
There is a deer trail on my property. Deer don’t like to hear their movement so they knock all the leaves off the trail and use it.
The Alaska pipeline was supposed to be a wildlife disaster when in reality it turned out to be just the opposite. I believe due the heat it generates it has turned into a giant singles bar for mating wildlife.
I delighted to see so many Caribou up in the ANWR. They crowd around the oil lines ‘cause it’s warm and there’s food (and shelter.) Weenies see them crowd and say “they can’t get through! They can’t migrate!) No - the fact is they LOVE those pipes!
Go to a large parking lot and watch the birds pick the bugs out of car grills.
A few years ago 60 minutes did a story about Davis Island. A rich neighborhood near downtown Tampa.
Loads of folks had all kinds of various fruit producing plants and trees.
Rats mice and other critters were everywhere using above ground power lines as super highways.
They filmed with infrared and it is amazing.
And Davis Island is just like so many other places.
Ask any hunter about some of the best places to find their prey.
But I am sure the researchers received government funds to us something country folks new all along.
Same way with the oilfields in the us, when it rains the water will run off of the hard packed roads and provide grass at the edge of the road where other wise there may not be none.
It’s probably several Killdeer nests on every flat gravel roof in the southern United States.
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