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That's ah...kinda sad that someone would feel so good about doing something...or not doing something....like that.
Then again...it's even more sad that people like this make it harder for the rest of us who go out of our way to make sure something like that never happens in the first place.
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fish in ocean
give me a break--the red sea bannerfish gets no more than 7 inches in captivity, tell me how a fish that small in the ocean(i dont care if it has 1000 babies every two weeks)can have such an adverse effect on the ecological system, when 9 out 10 it will get eaten byb other large predatory animals--the people who wrote this are p[robably the ones collecting the fish for us at the fish stores
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so if they have 1000 babies and 9 out of 10 get eaten, that still leaves 100 surviving, then they breed, then the number is 1000 surviving, then 10,000, etc..
then say they like the taste of elkhorn coral.. buh bye coral... everything impacts everything else, it's the way the world is set up. an exotic crab is caving in the thames river plecos are caving in florida canals. oscars, dempseys, green terrors, etc. are eating up all the native fry (and adults of some species) in florida zebra mussels in the great lakes the list unfortunately goes on.
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I have a feeling alot of the shipments get dumped near the airport. An airport worker may be given the task of destroying a skid of fish, and instead of destroying/killing the fish, they decide to dump them in the ocean.
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Re: fish in ocean
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I believe that is an invalid argument. I'm sure there is more than one case out there where introduced animals/organisms reached plague proportions and caused devastation to the native ecology (such as the bunny in Australia for example) despite their size and the presence of larger, potentially "predatory animals."
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I've seen goldfish and koi in the creeks and rivers around here... Some of them are HUGE too.
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all animals on flights fall under the jurisdiction of customs if international, or US/state fish and wildlife. they're not going to release exotics into the environment. they'll kill it if they need to. a baggage handler doesn't have the authority or know how to dispose of an exotic animal.
the boas are from petkeepers that weren't prepared to keep a giant snake and possibly from any one of the reptile breeders that abound down here.
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Then how do explain the monkeys and extoic birds that have taken up haven in the woods surrounding the airport?
It is well know that exotic animals have "escaped" from customs at the Miami Airport. There have been many documentaries that have shown these animals including interviews with airport personel that admit that the animals do sometimes get out of their shipping containers. |
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got any links? i've never heard of any monkeys running loose anywhere florida. birds? same as reptiles. escapees/releases from an aviary or petkeepers or even illegal immigrants that flew/got blown here. I don't doubt that baggage handlers have dropped holding containers, releasing a few critters. hell, I think it's mandatory for them to slam as many packages to the ground as they can, but F&G and LE are pretty trigger happy, willing to shoot any exotic they don't understand.
anyone remember 'Bobo' the tiger?
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What happened to Bobo?
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ive been to steves compound..he goes into the cage and plays with his tigers like they are kittens..its something to see.they are very tame..one came up to the bars where i was standing and put his head right there for me to pet..as i went to pet him steve yelled out to not put my hand near the bars as the tiger would probaly have bitten my hand off as he does not know me and would consider me food... as i walked from cage to cage so i could get to his a/c unit and fix it, the tiger followed me from cage to cage trying to get to me the whole time....if i saw one inthe woods and it was coming for me id blast it also..just because its tame to him doesnt mean it is safe to have around.....just a little bobo insight...
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