Posted on 05/31/2021 11:34:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Southeastern Australia has been battling mouse plague for months, following a combination of heavy rain, cooler temperatures, and a high crop yield.
Experts now worry the influx of mice could just be just the beginning of problems for the region, with worries a snake plague is on the way.
Gerard Dallow from a Sydney-based organization called Micropest told nine.com.au that "snakes are likely to follow" the rodents, potentially leading to a spike in their population numbers.
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“Hawaii has no snakes because of the population of mongooses brought there to eat the snakes.”
I heard there was a mongoose problem now.
I left Guam in 86 and they were starting to have a rat snake problem, the rat snakes would come in on landing gear of heavy Jets they would survive the trip in the gear housing at 39,000 something feet.
Anyway I had a friend that was in Guam about ten years after I was and he said that they’re almost no birds left on the island.
When they got back to the States they were at the hotel swimming pool in California and their 2 year old heard some birds in the bushes and he asked his daddy what that noise was. He had never heard a bird before.
followed by a mongoose plague?
This is nature. Animal populations tend to ebb and flow, expanding when food is plentiful, often expanding too much, outstripping the food supply and causing a great die-off.
This is why many species benefit from a managed hunting program. Because game limits can be increased in response to surges in game population, keeping their numbers in check and preventing overpopulation and serving to dampen wild swings in numbers (and the environmental damage that causes).
Oz’s problem is it’s almost 1/3-rd larger than the continental US but has fewer people than the state of Texas. And they’re mostly clustered along the coast, particularly at the far eastern and western ends. 90% of the continent is completely uninhabited by humans. Which affords them little to no opportunity to influence the natural “sinus rhythm” fluctuations of wildlife population. Made all the more problematic because Australia has so many invasive species (mice, rats, rabbits, hares, house cats, camels, goats, horses, donkeys, toads, deer, foxes, squirrels, et al), and many of them have found Oz’s hot, dry climate and general lack of humans much to their liking.
Driving down the road this morning, I had to stop by one of my neighbors cattle field. This cow was holding a rat in its mouth by the rat tail and swinging it back and forth onto the electric fence. Weirdest thing I’ve seen in many a days.
Re: Hawaii has no snakes because of the population of mongooses brought there to eat the snakes
I don’t think Hawaii has ever had a snake problem.
The mongooses were brought in to try and control the out of control rat 🐀 problem. Unfortunately they failed to notice that rats are generally nocturnal and mongooses move about in the day time. Now they have a surplus of rats and mongooses. Attention to details, people.
Maybe not, but garter snakes will pee on you if you catch one.
Australia also has a plague of US celebs moving here.
Ain’t got no problems with that.
:D
Then I guess you are PEE PROOF, LOL!
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