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>let your cat outside to battle the invasive rats devastating local wildlife
>dont let your cat outside there are countless endangered birds
the duality of new zealand
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@coolbean only dum birds get caught by cats. I've never seen a cat catch any corvid
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@coolbean that also explains why they mostly catch blackbirds, only species to get routinely run over by cars
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@snacks this is new zealand, home to the kiwi and takahe, 2 of the stupidest flightless birds of all time
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@snacks on the bright side its not entirely clear that the emu’s 3-4m tall cousin the moa is actually extinct or just… really good at evading humans much like the moose

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@coolbean i'd want the haarst eagle back more ngl
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@snacks no, no, i need the bird equivalent of a fucking moose
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@snacks herbivorous and im thankful for it
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@coolbean yeah, but the bird equivalent of a fucking mountain lion
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@snacks we need to bring back megafauna
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@snacks i think americans should replace all their cows with bison
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@snacks this is how the spanish flu couldve been prevented
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@snacks 25-50 million people died because of monoculture! just drink the weird tasting milk man!
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@snacks ill take goats too even though their eyes freak me the fuck out. it just fits too well in my little mountain village with sheep
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@coolbean i thought the spanish flu was some bird flu
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@coolbean i wanna try horsemilk stuff some time
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@snacks nope, cows. specifically american cows as it turns out. they even still have the same h1n1 virus but the spanish flu strain is mostly extinct (though cow farmers still frequently have antibodies for h1n1 so human transmissible strains are still a thing, just not as dangerous)
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@coolbean @snacks americans calling it the spanish flu when its specifically the american cow strain is quite a move

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