This is funny and all, but this community is no longer science memes, just funny things in general.
I smell fresh blood.
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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Meet the American Acclimatization Society, who introduced (among others) the Starling to North America.
It’s sometimes said this was to get all the birds mentioned in the works of Shakespeare into North America, but this appears to be speculation. What we do know is that they were people trying to get European wildlife everywhere in the world. A fantastically bad colonial project any way you look at it.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Gosh, that’s so misguided and tragic. The North American continent has so many beautiful landscapes and cool wildlife that doesn’t exist in most of Europe — and this was even more the case back in 1871. It obviously makes sense that they thought this way, given that the USA is borne of a colonial mindset, but damn, it’s sad that this made them so ignorant to what is cool and unique about their home