• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I have a lot of outdoorsy hobbies, most people who are serious about camping and hiking and such are also pretty good about leaving no trace.

    But there’s also a lot of people out there who aren’t serious about it, they just think it would be fun to go out in the woods and have a party or whatever and they leave a lot of litter, start fires in inappropriate places, etc.

    And at least around me, that’s generally a pretty safe thing for them to do. Theres no really no large predators left for them to be concerned about.

    And I sometimes think “maybe if we just reintroduced wolves, that might be enough to dissuade some of these assholes from making a mess in the great outdoors”

    Those of us who spend a lot of time outside know there’s usually not too much to worry about as long as you’re taking some basic precautions, but almost every time I talk to a non-outdoorsy person, it seems like they’re always afraid of getting attacked by wolves or bears.

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      1 month ago

      A friends husband refused to go on a trip to Canada because he was convinced they would be attacked by bears. They were going to Toronto

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Not boars, tho.
    Wolves prefer not to fuck with adult boars.
    Even when European lions were still around, they’d rather go for something else over a boar. Even bear cubs or baby mammoths, with all the risks involved.
    Without some metal animal like Komodo dragons, it falls to humans to keep them in check.

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        1 month ago

        Good luck spotting and hitting boar from a helicopter without like extensive thermal vision and and some massive minigun and even then it’s gonna be hard.

        Sneaky fuckers running in the undergrowth.

        Remember they got Bobby as well

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            1 month ago

            I did actually.

            “Helibacon” made me chuckle lol.

            But…

            And

            Doesn’t really assuade me from my point too much… Especially when those are in Texas, where the annoying undergrowth, that hogs have an easy time hiding in, doesn’t exist to the extent it does in other places.

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            1 month ago

            Haha fool me once Mr internet entrée. I will crank my hog in peace without hunting for whirling helicoptery hogs.

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    1 month ago

    These have to be the most adorable killer wolves. One is even winking at us! Idk if that is a good thing.

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    1 month ago

    Wolves really went from ecosystem management to solving everything 😭 nature’s multitool apparently.

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    1 month ago

    Well, I mean… I don’t wanna lose ALL the weight

    Also, Congress IS wolves, so that ain’t gonna work

  • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    But pro hunting groups would say wolves are “threatening their way of life.”

    Bitch we threatened wolves’ way of life when we exterminated them from habitats. Dear are not meant to populate where they have in numbers they have. The ecosystem didn’t evolve that way.