12-26-2008, 09:58 AM
Shekelpal wrote:
Interesting thing. Since we have had the semi-slug and the nematode that is in them and their slime, angiostrongylus cantonensis or rat lung worm, and since rats love to eat the disgusting things, we have seen very sick and strangely behaving rats. After the first year we had the semi-slug, we had hardly a rat. Now two years later, the rats came back big time in the early fall, the semi-slug started appearing big time again in November with the cool and wet, and voila, now hardly a rat. Possibility of something going on there.
Fascinating.
I wonder if there is a relationship between the rats and giant snails similar in some ways to that between wolves and moose on Isle Royale http://www.isleroyalewolf.org/data/data/womoabund.html or typical of lynx and snowshoe hares in the boral forest http://www.nhm.org/cats/P12/index.htm but complicated by the presence of the lungworm (and perhaps leptospirosis, as well) in snails possibly perturbing an otherwise straightforward predator-prey cyclic population pattern?
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman
"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."
NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt
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Interesting thing. Since we have had the semi-slug and the nematode that is in them and their slime, angiostrongylus cantonensis or rat lung worm, and since rats love to eat the disgusting things, we have seen very sick and strangely behaving rats. After the first year we had the semi-slug, we had hardly a rat. Now two years later, the rats came back big time in the early fall, the semi-slug started appearing big time again in November with the cool and wet, and voila, now hardly a rat. Possibility of something going on there.
Fascinating.
I wonder if there is a relationship between the rats and giant snails similar in some ways to that between wolves and moose on Isle Royale http://www.isleroyalewolf.org/data/data/womoabund.html or typical of lynx and snowshoe hares in the boral forest http://www.nhm.org/cats/P12/index.htm but complicated by the presence of the lungworm (and perhaps leptospirosis, as well) in snails possibly perturbing an otherwise straightforward predator-prey cyclic population pattern?
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Pres. John Adams, Scholar and Statesman
"There's a scientific reason to be concerned and there's a scientific reason to push for action. But there's no scientific reason to despair."
NASA climate analyst Gavin Schmidt
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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