Submitted by FeedTheOx t3_yl7cq3 in nottheonion
Ragtime-Rochelle t1_iux36ht wrote
Yeah let's shoot paintballs at this apex predator capable of biting through a moose femur to solve this terrible problem of it being too tame and friendly to me. Dumb.
Lackof_Creativity t1_iux4ugq wrote
everything you wrote before "Dumb" does not provide any support for your final conclusion...
are you saying shooting paintballs at these wolves will make them MORE tame??
Ragtime-Rochelle t1_iux577d wrote
No. I'm saying do not shoot the wolves unless they are attacking you. Being too tame is not a good reason. If you so this you deserve to get mauled both for your stupidity and being cruel to animals.
gandraw t1_iuxfp65 wrote
If wild animals get too tame, they start foraging near towns and will eventually attack either farm animals or people. You have to make them afraid of people so they stick to the forests and wild deer.
Lackof_Creativity t1_iuxfguz wrote
you sound quite dismissive. perhaps you can look into the topic of conservation a little bit.like even for 2 minutes. both for animals and plants there are some measures that humans undertake that (maybe) at first seem slightly counter-intuitive yet are appropriate to save species and promote a healthy ecosystem.
so for example with your pleasant example of me being mauled, what do you think then happens? yes. then you have wolves going up on the priority list of things that wildlife keepers are meant to start killing. oh and then the number of wolves goes down. and so then you (with your intelligence) have contributed to the number of wolves decreasing in the wild. and oh wow. you managed to achieve the opposite of what you actually wanted.
does that sound particularly smart now? i hope you understand that paintballs may be better than actual bullets....
Stravven t1_iuyfnmi wrote
We don't have moose here.
The wolves are too tame, and at the moment associate people with being fed. If they use paintballs it will teach them to stay away from humans.
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