Really? They just jumped from rabbit-sized mammals to elephant-size with zero predation?
Prey animals breed with the assumption
This is the first time I've heard of a deer "assuming" anything.
If this doesn’t happen then their population balloons until it consumes all available resources, then it collapses.
Evolution doesn't stop simply because predation stops. Yes, deer population will expand if predation stops, but that expansion will not result in some "Reindeer Apocalypse" as the colonialist brain-trust on here is trying to pretend it would. No, it will not result in the consumption of all available resources, as reindeer's natural environment is vast frikken northern hemisphere continents. If that could be possible, you might as well try to prove that bison hoovered up all the world's grasslands before humans even managed to become humans.
Let nature be natural.
We closed that door permanently about two centuries ago. We did...
We’ve removed their natural predators,
...this, remember?
It’d be fascist to assume it’s our domain to conquer and dominate into submission.
I'd say it's pretty eco-fash to assume that this isn't the exact thing we've already done.
absolutely wild that someone would assume someone’s political views based on their understanding of ecosystems-level biology,
Lol!
What did you think the (so-called) "Tragedy Of The Commons" right-wing myth was all about, eh? It's literally the same argument as the one being peddled here.
Dude, this is the most uncontaversial take in conservation.
So, again. Your Malthusian eco-fash hottake can literally be disproven by the simple fact that elephants exist. Animals can and will evolve to live within the means of their environments. Even humans have been thoroughly documented to be capable of such. So your pretensions that a "Reindeer Apocalypse" is imminent is... what, exactly?
The White Rhino has survived on this continent for thousands of years, until it was exposed to capitalist exploitation. Ie, the parasitic wealth-and-power accumulation of a tiny minority of the human race.
So your eco-fash hottake can literally be disproven by the fact that elephants exist, yet you are so desperate to cling onto it that you try to peddle forcing deer into becoming an invasive species on an island they have never adapted to as proof?
They would overpopulate and exhaust all the resources.
Save your right-wing "overpopulation" bullcrap. Barely anything predates on elephants and rhinos, yet they haven't managed to strip the continent of Africa and "exhaust all the resources."
“belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of ‘Israel.'”
Now that's a false-flag if I ever saw one. Out of all the sites of arms manufacturers, funding operations and troll-farms that directly support Israel, these creeps attack... the Internet Archive?
Really? They just jumped from rabbit-sized mammals to elephant-size with zero predation?
This is the first time I've heard of a deer "assuming" anything.
Evolution doesn't stop simply because predation stops. Yes, deer population will expand if predation stops, but that expansion will not result in some "Reindeer Apocalypse" as the colonialist brain-trust on here is trying to pretend it would. No, it will not result in the consumption of all available resources, as reindeer's natural environment is vast frikken northern hemisphere continents. If that could be possible, you might as well try to prove that bison hoovered up all the world's grasslands before humans even managed to become humans.
We closed that door permanently about two centuries ago. We did...
...this, remember?
I'd say it's pretty eco-fash to assume that this isn't the exact thing we've already done.