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06-02-2020, 18:07 #31
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Every farmer is doing research every farmer know how much livestock was lost to jackal and how much to caracal. The data is there just because it was not written up in the correct format does not invalidate the data. As per usual the private industry are again miles and miles ahead of the academic community. The shit they try to research now while spending millions of rands from the NRF was allready learned by farmers after one season of farming livestock decades ago. I am afraid what the scientific method has become today is 99% bullshit and 1% cowshit especially when it comes from conservation and biology fields. Seriously the shit that passes as research papers today makes me ashamed of being a biologist and also laugh at the idea that we are somehow an intelligent species
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06-02-2020, 19:06 #38
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Re: Jackal control myths
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06-02-2020, 19:46 #39
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Re: Jackal control myths
I'd be the first to acknowledge that just shooting jackal is a crude method, but I would also admit there is nothing natural about the scenario, it's just a man made solution to a man made problem, nothing natural about the problem or solution.
That is why the suggestion from some to just live with them is laughable, they are not the ones picking up the pieces the next day. If I can just have a greenie with me the day we try and clean maggots from a wound, or cutting the throat if the animal is beyond saving, maybe then the'll understand real world data differs from the books, when they are done puking.
Anyways, when it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then by modern logic it must be a platypus.
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06-02-2020, 20:02 #40
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Re: Jackal control myths
Many years ago I worked as a research analyst in a petrochemical refinery's laboratory, my job was to gather data, write reports and occasionally carry out experiments for researchers. Currently, I work on a conservation project which several scientists from various countries are involved in. So I am not entirely unfamiliar with either research or scientists and I do respect the discipline and effort involved. But sometimes I wonder.
Anyway, other peoples problems are always easier to solve than your own. People who loudly condemn farmers for killing predators causing millions of Rand of damage, casually poison rodents in and around their homes for causing far less damage. The moment it starts eating into your budget the problem becomes much more personal and suddenly solutions that seemed unreasonable become acceptable.
Oh, and I actually quite like jackal, they are hardy, focused, efficient, intelligent, bad-assed canines and I often fall asleep, or wake, to their haunting calls. That does not stop me from hunting them though.
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