• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    As you yourself said, cats have been living across most of Africa, Asia and Europe for over a thousand years. So unless you are talking about Australia, the Americas, or a few corners of the old world, cats are either native or naturalised enough that they are now a part of the ecosystem.

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      9 months ago

      A thousand years is nothing to an ecosystem. Birds have been migrating across Europe, Asia, and the Americas for hundreds of millions of years, only to get slaughtered in droves by furry shit machines.

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        9 months ago

        It depends on the ecosystem. Pollution famously caused certain moths to shift from being mostly light-coloured to mostly dark-coloured in a matter of years. The removal and reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone caused observable changes in prey behaviour within a decade or so. Of course longer-lived species like trees take much longer to adapt, but we’re talking about birds, geckos and rodents here.

        Edit: Also, most geckos, birds and rodents are r-strategists, meaning they are limited more by food than by predation.

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          9 months ago

          I don’t think the introduction of thousands of F. Catus to any local ecosystem will have anything other than dire consequences.

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      9 months ago

      The absolute brain-dead mentality of the people who will just downvote anything that doesn’t fit their predetermined conclusion.