[N_Fiddledog]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Someone check on ray, he's likely become despondent over the headline and didn't get a chance to read the story to find out they're talking about a feline.

Right...

Who says the Eastern Cougar is extinct?

[martin14]

[2Cdo]

martin14 martin14:

PDT_Armataz_01_32

Who do you think you're kidding? You'd be on those 3 like a fat kid on a smartie!

[ShepherdsDog]

nah martin's got his eye on someone else

[2Cdo]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

nah martin's got his eye on someone else

Hey, how about a little warning next time.

[Thanos]

That freak is worth at least $500 million. No matter how hard you work, no matter how much you try, no matter how much you try to do the right thing, no matter what you've personally put on the line for your country, no matter how many people you genuinely help during the course of your lifetime, you will never ever have as much money as that complete waste of space has.

Once again, things like this are why I'm actively cheering from the asteroid. There is absolutely no point to anything in this world.

[Tyler_1]

It kind of amazes me that a law hasn't been made so we can get rid of these women when they turn 30 or 20 or whatever and start making us
The actual cougar story is a little depressing. If we have lots we could share the kittays.

[Hyack]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Someone check on ray, he's likely become despondent over the headline and didn't get a chance to read the story to find out they're talking about a feline.

Right...

Who says the Eastern Cougar is extinct?

[Tyler_1]

Who is the guy?

[ShepherdsDog]

the grandson of the blond?

[N_Fiddledog]

The pic's promotion for an Off-Broadway play titled Cougars: The Musical.

[stratos]

Okay so no more older hot Asian woman with a young dude?

[andyt]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Damn though...

Now Andy's got me thinking serious thoughts, and I have to tell him about one of my favourite theories. It explains how even in the wild young, healthy animals can get it too.

I believe that at times an environment gets too good. The population overcrowds. At that point some weird sort of self-destructive mindset, viral infection thingy seems to spread throughout the herd and they almost make themselves available to predators. Like I said self-destructive.

Works for human societies too. Just replace predators with barbarians at the gate.

IF those are serious thoughts, stick to the non-serious ones.

When times are good for prey, they increase the population which makes it good times for the predators and they increase - reducing the prey population which in turn reduces the predators. Classic example is the Lynx-Hare cycle.

[andyt]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

andyt andyt:

Not true in BC, afaik. We have plenty of deer, in some case becoming a nuisance in towns. We also have the predators to keep the populations healthy.


DNR to hunters: Kill more female deer
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201202260159

I'm confused. Why are you complaining about the hunters if they're doing the bidding of the government and the biologists who help form government policy?

Because by themselves, hunters will never keep a population healthy. They might shoot does to reduce the population, they'll still go for the healthy ones. Predators weed out the unfit. Saw a show about wolves predating on bison. The pack went after an adult that the biologist narrating the film could not tell had anything wrong with it. But the wolves knew, killed it in short order. They are the experts here, not the humans.


http://www.conservationnw.org/what-we-d ... their-prey

[N_Fiddledog]

andyt andyt:

IF those are serious thoughts, stick to the non-serious ones.

When times are good for prey, they increase the population which makes it good times for the predators and they increase - reducing the prey population which in turn reduces the predators. Classic example is the Lynx-Hare cycle.

Oh, good Andy's feeling tough. I like that. Then I don't have to feel guilty when pointing out the obviously moronic.

OK, so you're wanting to pretend you understood what I said, are you?

Let's say it again, then, because I doubt it.

What you're talking about is a thing everybody already knows.

Mine was a theory that proposes when prey becomes over-abundant in an area, a section of the population appears to get self destructive.

You know kind of like you and you affection for jihadis. They say to your face. "We want to kill you Andy. Our sacred book commands us to kill you." But you say, "Uh huh...wanna Canadian passport."

It's like that. Or remember earlier when you were talking about how deer will sometimes get so over-populated in the bush, they'll walk into a city of human predators and start eating people's roses. That's dumb right. I mean not even you would do that if you were a deer, right? It's that dumb. Could we call that self-destructive. I say yes.

Even you should understand this. But don't tell me if you don't, OK. I don't wanna do the have to do the tell you 20 times until you understand thing today.

BTW, ever figure out what abrogation was?