At least in north America, domestic cats are far from the top of the food chain and have many predators. Which is why they don’t live outside human civilization. Lionfish have no predators in the areas they’re invasive, which is the problem. Though it looks like both sharks and grouper can be trained by humans to eat them so once that chain is established the lionfish might start declining.
Sure, but then it dies without having children, stopping the resource consumption. It might be delayed, but it’s still a halting force. I’m also confused as to what the issue is - do they have some way of bypassing being neutered?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
fisheries.noaa.gov/…/impacts-invasive-lionfish
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
But they neutered it…
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 hours ago
I think is a reference to feral cats.
SillyDude@lemmy.zip 33 minutes ago
At least in north America, domestic cats are far from the top of the food chain and have many predators. Which is why they don’t live outside human civilization. Lionfish have no predators in the areas they’re invasive, which is the problem. Though it looks like both sharks and grouper can be trained by humans to eat them so once that chain is established the lionfish might start declining.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
They’re better off eating them. :)
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
a neutered animal still consumes resources
Signtist@bookwyr.me 5 hours ago
Sure, but then it dies without having children, stopping the resource consumption. It might be delayed, but it’s still a halting force. I’m also confused as to what the issue is - do they have some way of bypassing being neutered?
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Just one won’t impact anything substantial.