>armadillos expanding their range naturally>several states have them listed as invasive speciesWhy are "conservationists" so retarded? What exactly are they trying to conserve?
Reminder these fuckers spread leprosy.
>>5067572And your cat spreads parasites in its feces thougheverbeit
>>5067573Actually I hate cats, but nice sentiment.
>>5067572>>5067573The only solution is to kill all mammals.
>>5067538A supposed ideal state they've fabricated within their minds.In that spirit, I firmly believe that we should kill off all non-domesticated apex predators on the planet and use the prey population for ourselves.
>>5067573Unlike you, I don't eat cat shit so that isn't too much of a worry for me, unlike when armadillos piss on the grass which gets into the water supply.
>>5067538Do you even have different words for neobiota and harmful neobiota?
>>5067573toxo derangement syndrome
>>5067538>Originally from South AmericaThese lying pieces of shit. They'll even try to paint native species as "invaders" to push the global warming agenda.
>>5067572No they don't. Humans GAVE them leprosy in labs. Stop getting all your propaganda from reddit (Eglin Air Force Base). In case you were wondering, humans also gave deer CWD, Bison brucellosis and Koalas chlamydia.
>>5068311These aren't "neobiota". They're literally just returning partly to their former range since the US has partly recovered from the horrors of the Early 20th century.
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>>5068323>Koalas chlamydiaI don't even want to know the story behind that one.
>>5067538How exactly will Armadillos make it to those isolated pockets of "potential range" when they can't survive in the area in between them?
>>5068331Appears to have come from farm animals. Most of these cases come from farm animals or laboratory evil.
>>5068323So wild armadillos aren't capable of spreading it and it was only lab-tested ones which they then killed and furnaced afterwards?
>>5068365No, I mean they're not to blame for this and I'm tired of this fucking jewish propaganda campaign attacking wild animals for shit humans did.
>>5068345travelling through the hollow earth
>>5068380Oh I see, and I agree.
>>5068380>Armadillos have leprosy. We should contain their population no matter what climate change does so we don’t get it. >NOOOO ITS NOT THEIR FAULT! JEWWWWS! ARMADILLO LIVES MATTER!Antisemite L by stupidity (common)JEWSJustEndlesslyWinningSuckas!
>>5068323Armadillos didn't acquire Mycobacterium leprae in a lab. They picked up the bacteria borrowing into and scavenging from leper colony graveyards in at least 5 different incidences that we can track with genetic testing of the bacteria in question, with the first probably being almost 400 years ago based on the diversity of that particular genetic line of Mycobacterium leprae.
>>5068331Chlamydia is principally a sheep disease, the human strain was a zoonotic infection from somewhere in North Africa between 1 and 2 thousand years ago. The Koala strain appears to be much more recently derived from the sheep disease.
I like armadillos :)
>>5067573Anti cat schizo melty
"...as far north as the Lawrence Municipal Airport"Oh ok, lol
>>5068380>I'm tired of this fucking jewish propaganda campaign attacking wild animals for shit humans didThe invasive species psyop is the best example of this>completely destroy or heavily modify the ecosystem (farmland, suburbs, fertilizer runoff, etc)>all native wildlife dies off>resilient generalists survive>complain that its their fault and we need to kill them to "save" the ecosystemIt's genuinely sickening to read normalfag comments on social media saying shit like how they want to smash iguana heads with rocks.
>>5068438so at some point a sheep had relations with a koala?
>>5068323They do spread leprosy, esl. I never said anything about where it originated from.
>>5068782Humans are predators. We LIKE killing shit.
>>5068782erm sorry chud but snopes has proven that coyotes are evil for being the only medium sized predator that can breed faster than humans can chimp out on anything that eats chickens
>>5067538It's very funny how "originally from south america" is attempting to imply it's traveled across the whole of mesoamerica and mexico to reach the US when it's been in the US for thousands and thousands of years. Disingenuous propaganda hiding in a reasonable presentation.
>>5067538OH NOIOOOOOOO!!!1!!NOT LAWRENCE MUNICIPAL AIRPORT!!!!!1!+! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
>>5067573Based total c*t death
>>5068786Koalas eat feces. They probably came into contact with some variety of discharge from an infected sheep and it spread from there. The problem is that they don't tolerate an extended release strong antibiotic well, so you can't just dart them with treatment, you have to capture them and treat them and hope they don't get reinfected on release. This doesn't work well and is very expensive.
>>5068815They weren't documented in the continental US until 1850. It's not been "thousands of years".
>>5067538I never understood this “invasive species” meme. It’s generally accepted that migration is acceptable if escaping predating in the current environment but when humans are involved it’s “unnatural”?
>>5068824>They weren't documented in the continental US until 1850.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-banded_armadilloA 2014 genetic study by Shapiro et al. found that a 10,000-12,000 year-old fossil tibia from Medford Cave, central Florida, which was previously thought to belong to the extinct beautiful armadillo (D. bellus), actually belonged to the nine-banded armadillo. This suggests that the nine-banded armadillo naturally inhabited the southeastern United States, including Florida, during the Late Pleistocene until its extirpation from the region early in the Holocene. It is unknown why the armadillo did not recolonize the United States until European settlement of the region, but it has been suggested that hunting by Coahuiltecan tribes and habitat clearance by intentionally-set brushfires prevented armadillos from previously recolonizing the region. Armadillo movement patterns also often follow corridors such as railroads and roads, which likely helped to facilitate its rapid expansion into and throughout the United States.[18][19]>wikipedia mentions both the case of it being in the continental US as of the Great American Interchange and also that specific claim of them only being documented in the 1850's. Regardless of recent history or poor recognition of that recent history (whichever ends up being true) they clearly HAVE been in the US for thousands and thousands of years per above.
>>5067538>Potential rangeThere's no way armanigglos will make it all the way to West Virginia... R-right?
>>5068849they've been here for centuries
>>5067572>Reminder these fuckers spread leprosy.No, you.
>>5067538They fuck your car up BAD
>>5068391Most mentally stable yid
>>5068345They can hitchhike. I'd pick one up.
What species are you helping expand their range? I've been mass breeding banded geckos for future release in Florida.
>>5068839Pleistocene Florida was fucking crazy. It was completely submerged at least three times in recent prehistory (don't quote me on that) which completely wiped the slate clean.There used to be giant capybaras, their own boa species, and even a tegu. It's funny that most "invasives" are just these species or their equivalent coming back.You also have brown anoles and green iguanas, known and documented to island hop, barely a stones throw away from Florida. They would have came to Florida eventually, humans just did it for them.
>>5068380Who tf is talking about "blaming" armadillos for anything? Not everything is about moral judgement.
>>5068839>Armadillo movement patterns also often follow corridors such as railroads and roads,Why do they like to follow roads? Are armadillos civilized?
>>5069274Everything follows roads. It's a clear path with a reasonable grade and good dry footing. There's a reason why so many animals get hit by cars, a road is a supernaturally good path to travel.
>>5067538>What exactly are they trying to conserve?Unironically and unequivocally: the environment as they thought it existed roughly 300 or so years ago. Typically, whenever they began documenting it or encountering it (in the case of colonialism). This is done irregardless of the fact that the environments we currently live in are absolutely severely diminished and way below their carrying capacity for the range or diversity of organisms they could be housing. As the other Anons have already stated: >>5069257 >>5068782 There's nothing inherently superior or 'enhanced' about invasive species: the method of action for how & why invasive species become invasive is their ability to take advantage of a compromised environment allowing them to wedge themselves in. Boar, famously, are spreading across the United States for several reasons: no full-time predators, absence of competition from herbivores, farms/ranches constantly releasing more stock, and wide-scale industrial agriculture providing food for them and destroying habitat. You look at Canada, where boar have been introduced across Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba, and their spread has been severely stalled. Not because Canadians are doing anything "better", but because Canada has harsh winters, still has wolves, and has a greater number of mixed herbivores (elk, moose, deer, wild horses).
>>5067538Since when are there armadillos in Massachusetts?
>>5069478anon there are only two colors on the graph and they're clearly labeled "current range" and "potential range".
>>5067592Can we domesticate some first? I really want a lion or tiger as a pet.
