Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: The "minus the $100 words" comment.
I was only poking fun at the use of a few words that you used: "deleterious" and "extirpation". I didn't feel threatened or anything. It's kind of a joke with Marines, when someone uses large words to poke fun at them a little bit. Sometimes I forget that our humor and civilian humor is a little different.
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: Nature is out of balance because the bear isn't in the environment. What looks like balance to uneducated eyes (anybody who doesn't have a background in ecological science) is actually a wildly out of balance ecosystem.
That might be the case, as I'm not an expert on the german ecosystem, but it must really be out of whack because of other extinctions. . .how do we bring back the dinosaurs?
Comrade Shampanyov, Gentleman wrote: That viewpoint contradicts ecological science, unfortunately.
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Let me set up and example. A simple circle of plant-life, rabbits and wolves.
There naturally is a balance of population of all three innature. If one increases, it affects all three. If more plantlife happened, there would be more rabbits thriving to eat the plants, which in-turn would increase the number of wolves. If one increased and the others did not, the ecosystem would have problems. If there were too many rabbits, they would destroy the plant-life, and harm the ecosystem. If there were too many wolves, they would damage the amount of rabbits, the amount of plantlife would go out of balance. Something eventually brings these back into balance.
First off, an animal that has been gone for 170 years, the ecosystem more than likely has already created a balance without it.
However, reintrudicing a large bear can have a large impact on the ecosystem. They are ominivours, which leads to more competition for food. Also there are animals that don't have defense mechanisms for the bear as they are completely unaware of thier existence. Good example is that Bruno was seen damaging hives of bees to get honey. The bees don't have a mechanism to defend themselves or their hive from a bear. . .in the time it takes them to figure out how to protect their hive, many colonies numbers will be affected. With a lesser amount of bees, less pollination of certian plants occurs, so less seeds for future plants, which would affect the herbavours, then the carnivours. . . .etc.
Again, I am not against a bear being reintroduced. I was poking fun at the enviromentalists.
JHC
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