Clay and Buck were yapping about this yesterday and talking about the folly of the de-extinction of large predators, along the line of Jurassic Park, but they were on about Short-faced Bears and Sabre Toothed Cats. The one guy said he wasn't worried about the Doo Doo Bird coming back, but large predators were a problem.
I disagree. What if the Passenger Pigeon was brought back? That dirty destructive pest will make the ordinary city pigeon look like no problem at all. The filth and destruction they would cause when they roost is unimaginable in this day and age. People would plead for their removal and re-extinction after a few years of that.
They brought up the problems of messing with the food chain. Problems with things like my pigeon example. Bring back the pigeon and you need to bring back its natural predators and their predators and so on. Bring back a predator with no wild game to eat and they will eat what ever else they find, including people if necessary. Like the one character on Jurassic Park said, "They went extinct for a reason."
I disagree. What if the Passenger Pigeon was brought back? That dirty destructive pest will make the ordinary city pigeon look like no problem at all. The filth and destruction they would cause when they roost is unimaginable in this day and age. People would plead for their removal and re-extinction after a few years of that.
They brought up the problems of messing with the food chain. Problems with things like my pigeon example. Bring back the pigeon and you need to bring back its natural predators and their predators and so on. Bring back a predator with no wild game to eat and they will eat what ever else they find, including people if necessary. Like the one character on Jurassic Park said, "They went extinct for a reason."
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