On Jun 5, 2:35 pm, Jeßus <n...@all.org> wrote:
> Ho...@NOSPAMFatHounds.com wrote:
> > crisology <crisol...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >> 90% of
> >> N. American native predator species have been eliminated since H.
> >> Sapiens arrived.
>
> > I call bullshit.
>
> Agreed
Give research a chance and try to refute before you finish casting
your votes. I provided falsifiable numbers so it's fair game. I cannot
find the first & second order predation or overkill hypothesis sites I
bookmarked on my old pc to provide a reference for the "90%" number,
just similar sites with similar stats. In context, the references
below support the overall message. Keep in mind that native predators
are more directly in competition w/man so they have been reduced more
than herbivores. And animals in Africa are assumed to have adapted to
some degree w/early human hunting before man entered N. America.
"Large Mammals Missing from 80 Percent of their Range due to Human
Pressure
December 2007. Researchers have realised that less than 21 percent of
the earth’s terrestrial surface still contains all of the large
mammals it once held. The discovery highlights human impacts on
biodiversity as well as the need for better protection. Results of the
study are published in the latest Journal of Mammalogy."
http://whyfiles.org/143giant_animal/2.html
"humans who strode across the temporarily dry Bering straits sometime
before 12,000 years ago, and, within 2,000 years, reached the tip of
South America. During roughly the same period, 73 percent of large
herbivore species apparently went extinct in North America."
"Lion populations have fallen by almost 90% in the past 20 years"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3119434.stm
"CNN's Kyra Phillips reports (May 14)
(CNN) -- A new global study concludes that 90 percent of all large
fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans in the past half
century, the devastating result of industrial fishing.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ad/Extinctions_Africa_Austrailia_NAmerica_Madagascar.gif
http://www.whole-systems.org/extinctions.html
Welcome to the third wave of the Pleistocene-Holocene Extinction Event
between natural catastrophes (the ice age is over).
Deprogrammed, detoxing, deglaciating, post ice age,
Chris
Paul Bartram
Jeßus
