On the one hand doubtless the naturalists have a point, but honestly whenever I hear people complaining that such-and-such a species is so destructive, I always think "that's not even the pot calling the kettle black, that's the pot calling the slightly-gray-thing black." Cats may depress songbird populations, but humans are the ones who drove the passenger pigeon to extinction. Maybe we shouldn't allow ourselves outside.
I know house cats have been in Turkey a lot longer than they've been in the New World, but I don't know if they've been there long enough to count as native. How long does a species need to be in a place to be native anyway? Do humans count anywhere outside of Africa?
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Date: 2018-03-25 08:03 pm (UTC)I know house cats have been in Turkey a lot longer than they've been in the New World, but I don't know if they've been there long enough to count as native. How long does a species need to be in a place to be native anyway? Do humans count anywhere outside of Africa?