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    #5912
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,210 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    Kat1170 wrote: »
    *Of course the best thing is not to introduce them in the first place.

    Yeah, this was what I meant alright.

    Also, the moose were brought in explicitly to be shot. It's not like they snuck in accidentally on a boat (as happens with smaller animals) and had to be eradicated


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    #5913
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭Lorelli!


    McDonald's are the world's largest distributor of toys.


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    #5914
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,207 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Lego manufacture more tyres per year than Dunlop, Goodyear et al combined.


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    #5915
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Kat1170 wrote: »
    Actually that is the best outcome of that situation*, introducing foreign Flora and Fauna to an area rarely works out well. :mad::mad: It is a worldwide problem and one that is here in Ireland as well.


    Zebra Mussels.
    Signal Crayfish.
    Grey Squirrel.



    The list goes on and on ………..




    *Of course the best thing is not to introduce them in the first place.

    Invasive species can be a massive problem, another non native species to New Zealand are Trout.
    I’m conflicted in this one, as someone who fly fishes New Zealand is on the bucket list of fishing destinatios (as are other places where the fish are invasive such as Patagonia).

    Rabbits wreaked havoc in Australia after they were introduced.


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    #5916
    greenspurs
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    #5917
    VW 1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,500 ✭✭✭VW 1


    Interesting story on the eradication of invasive goats introduced to Pacific Island in the 1600s. When ground hunting failed, they resorted to sharpshooters from helicopters and what they termed "Judas Goats".

    http://allthatsinteresting.com/project-isabela


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    #5918
    sbsquarepants
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    cdeb wrote: »
    Yeah, this was what I meant alright.

    Also, the moose were brought in explicitly to be shot. It's not like they snuck in accidentally on a boat (as happens with smaller animals) and had to be eradicated

    I can't be the only one who got a good giggle from the idea of a stowaway moose:D


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    #5919
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I can't be the only one who got a good giggle from the idea of a stowaway moose:D

    nope :o


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    #5920
    Big Nasty
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    VW 1 wrote: »
    Interesting story on the eradication of invasive goats introduced to Pacific Island in the 1600s. When ground hunting failed, they resorted to sharpshooters from helicopters and what they termed "Judas Goats".

    http://allthatsinteresting.com/project-isabela

    I'm even more surprised that they had helicopters in the 1600s! :eek:


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    #5921
    Professor Moriarty
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    Big Nasty wrote: »
    I'm even more surprised that they had helicopters in the 1600s! :eek:

    I bet you didn't know that.


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    #5922
    New Home
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    I blame that Da Vinci kid.


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    #5923
    New Home
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    80a9c67d255dca16af41507c693852f3--baby-platypus-perry-the-platypus.jpg


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    #5924
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Big Nasty wrote: »
    I'm even more surprised that they had helicopters in the 1600s! :eek:

    Leonardo_da_Vinci_helicopter.jpg


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    #5925
    Wibbs
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    New Home wrote: »
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    They're also one of the few venomous mammals around today. The males anyway. They produce a venom in glands in their hind legs that is injected through spurs on same, that while not fatal to humans causes truly excruciating pain, sometimes lasting for months, a pain that morphine doesn't dull. Though if my memory serves I think I posted this before... :o

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #5926
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Wibbs wrote: »
    They're also one of the few venomous mammals around today. The males anyway. They produce a venom in glands in their hind legs that is injected through spurs on same, that while not fatal to humans causes truly excruciating pain, sometimes lasting for months, a pain that morphine doesn't dull. Though if my memory serves I think I posted this before... :o

    I thought they were the only venomous mammals?

    (and the memory aint 21 anymore either :p)


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    #5927
    mzungu
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    Mongolia is the worlds most sparsely populated country at 1.92 people per square kilometre. Although a rapidly increasing population may change this is the no so distant future. Ulaanbaatar is also the coldest capital city in the world (-1.3 degrees Celsius) thanks to the Siberian winds.


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    #5928
    Wibbs
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    wexie wrote: »
    I thought they were the only venomous mammals?

    (and the memory aint 21 anymore either :p)
    IIRC there are small insect eating shrews and a couple of bats with venomous saliva. The platypus has the most obvious and clear cut venom mind you.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #5929
    New Home
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    Wibbs wrote: »
    They're also one of the few venomous mammals around today. The males anyway. They produce a venom in glands in their hind legs that is injected through spurs on same, that while not fatal to humans causes truly excruciating pain, sometimes lasting for months, a pain that morphine doesn't dull. Though if my memory serves I think I posted this before... :o

    Yep, I did know that! :pac:
    wexie wrote: »
    I thought they were the only venomous mammals?

    (and the memory aint 21 anymore either :p)
    Wibbs wrote: »
    IIRC there are small insect eating shrews and a couple of bats with venomous saliva. The platypus has the most obvious and clear cut venom mind you.

    You forgot about mothers-in-law! *badum tsss!* :pac: :D


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    #5930
    pleas advice
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    #5931
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,210 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    The slow loris is venomous too

    (Insert Liverpool goalkeeper joke here...)

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    #5932
    quickbeam
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    As they're Primates, I guess they're the closest venomous relative to us??


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    #5933
    dinorebel
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    quickbeam wrote: »
    As they're Primates, I guess they're the closest venomous relative to us??

    You've obviously not met my wife.


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    #5934
    Emmersonn
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    dinorebel wrote: »
    You've obviously not met my wife.


    Looks like we're married to sisters. :D


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    #5935
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    mzungu wrote: »
    Mongolia is the worlds most sparsely populated country at 1.92 people per square kilometre. Although a rapidly increasing population may change this is the no so distant future. Ulaanbaatar is also the coldest capital city in the world (-1.3 degrees Celsius) thanks to the Siberian winds.

    They were also wuite good at doing the sparcing, back in the day.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_under_the_Mongol_Empire


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    #5936
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,933 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    cdeb wrote: »
    The slow loris is venomous too

    (Insert Liverpool goalkeeper joke here...)

    babes.jpg

    Lloris is the Spurs keeper, Karius is the Liverpool keeper
    ;)


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    #5937
    Harambe
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭Harambe


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Lloris is the Spurs keeper, Karius is the Liverpool keeper
    ;)

    Loris Karius is his name ;)


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    #5938
    thesandeman
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    dinorebel wrote: »
    You've obviously not met my wife.

    Soon to be ex wife if she reads that.


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    #5939
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,933 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Harambe wrote: »
    Loris Karius is his name ;)

    Well that's something I genuinely didn't know. Touché


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    #5940
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,242 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    A 250th Anniversary is called a Semiquincentennial.

    Its also a very satisfying word to say.


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    #5941
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    retalivity wrote: »
    A 250th Anniversary is called a Semiquincentennial.

    Its also a very satisfying word to say.

    I can't say it :(


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