Posted on 08/10/2022 6:47:50 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Bears, boars, monkeys and even dolphins are becoming bolder and more aggressive as climate change affects their habitats and forces them into confrontations with humans.
Dramatic changes in the landscape of rural Japan have caused significant changes in the behavior of the nation's wild animals, leading to more frequent — and more violent — clashes with humans.
In years gone by, bear attacks have typically accounted for the majority of the attacks on humans, along with occasional rampages by boars. But there has been a sharp increase in reports of attacks by monkeys this summer, while authorities in one coastal city have warned of dolphins becoming aggressive toward swimmers.
And while such confrontations in the past primarily took place when humans strayed off the beaten path, with people foraging for mushrooms and other mountain vegetables attacked by bears, incidents are increasingly happening in the suburbs of some of the nation's biggest cities.
“I think the statistics confirm that we are seeing far more cases in recent years than before," said Mariko Abe, of the Nature Conservation Society of Japan.
“There seem to be several factors contributing to the increase in these cases, but I think one of the biggest — particularly this year — is the effect of climate change," she told DW.
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Yes, they said that while visiting them - however the size of those black snakes canceled out “harmless” for me!
I hate mice, rats, and chipmunks. Very destructive. Black snakes love them. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. :)
They might just have to change their Gun laws.
What morons believe this nonsense???? Oh, sorry half the country does!!
Pretty sure this is just another end times sign, animals turning on humanity...
Ditto. The moment “climate change” enters the conversation I’m out of there. I don’t suffer fools gladly.
That’s a rather keen observation I’ve never thought about before.
Thanks!
I thought Japan’s population numbers were imploding.
That’s a rather keen observation I’ve never thought about before.
Round about 100,000 years ago humans expanded into Asia, reached the edge of the Siberian steppes, then stopped.
Parties of adults could hunt on the steppes, but human communities could not settle on the steppes. Because of the hyenas. Any attempted human settlement would attract hyenas, who'd skulk around the edges grabbing children.
Then came the dogs. We didn't domesticate them, they domesticated themselves, finding that foraging our middens was a good living.
They weren't really tame, at first, but the were no threat to our children, and they filled the ecological niche, keeping out the hyenas and other scavengers.
And together we settled the steppes.
Ever since, every human community was surrounded by a protective cloud of half-wild dogs.
After dogs were domesticated we'd have boys and dogs, exploring and hunting together, anyplace within a day's walk. Even up to modern times.
Even when I was a kid there wasn't a spot of woods around that didn't have a 10-year-old with his dog and his .22 poking around.
Then we started leashing our dogs, and leashing our 10-year-olds...
So lower order intelligent animals understand the concept of being sentient, knowing they are indeed animals and know what the climate is.
Good God who comes up with this idiocy?
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