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Comment on The Amazing Adaptable Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginiana) by The Amazing Adaptable white tail deer - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:22:28 +0000

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Comment on When Pleistocene Megafauna Roamed Interdunal Wetlands by jamesrobertsmith

jamesrobertsmith — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:21:51 +0000

Shooting deer is easy. You just sit on your ass above them and wait for them to walk in front of your gun. Plus, there are millions of white-tailed deer here in the East. We need wolves and mountain lions to help thin the herds.

Comment on When Pleistocene Megafauna Roamed Interdunal Wetlands by markgelbart

markgelbart — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:35:41 +0000

Huntington Beach State Park is right next to Harbor Island. I always saw a lot of deer there.

On one occasion I went fishing from a pier and didn’t catch anything. Then, when I went back to my vehicle, there was a deer in the parking lot. I whistled to it, and it approached me so closely I could have shot it at point blank range with a handgun. No fish, but could have had venison.

No deer hunter will ever convince me that shooting a deer is challenging.

Comment on When Pleistocene Megafauna Roamed Interdunal Wetlands by jamesrobertsmith

jamesrobertsmith — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:33:17 +0000

Some years ago my wife and I witnessed this kind of wetland during a very wet period at Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina. Pools and marshes had formed where before there had been only dunes and some grassy areas. There were pools where minnows and fish had established populations. Wading birds were there in vast numbers. It was an amazing sight.

Later, the system vanished and went back to dunes and grassy areas. The vast ponds with abundant fish life are gone, and the birds moved on to other areas. It was gorgeous while it lasted.

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Bearzilla: The biggest bear ever - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:26:48 +0000

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Comment on The Mystery Cat of Pleistocene Georgia by markgelbart

markgelbart — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:39:29 +0000

Patagonia has probably suffered a lot of extinction at the hands of man. I think most of it is open country. Little jungle cats couldn’t live there.

Comment on The Stagell Interglacial (MIS 11) is an Orbital Analogue for the Holocene by Global warming will occur with or without Greenhouse Gases - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum

Fri, 10 May 2013 01:13:47 +0000

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Comment on The Mystery Cat of Pleistocene Georgia by jamesrobertsmith

jamesrobertsmith — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:55:25 +0000

I was reading about native mammals of the Patagonia region of South America. What surprised me was the relative lack of terrestrial mammals in that part of the world. There just aren’t very many! The cougar does exist there (southernmost part of its range) but I didn’t see any of the other South American cats on the list of mammals native to that area.

Comment on The Natural Communities of Georgia by Leslie Edwards, Jonathan Ambrose, and L. Katherine Kirkman by markgelbart

markgelbart — Wed, 08 May 2013 18:39:51 +0000

If you raise an eskimo baby on an American diet, I bet he/she still won’t grow up to be 7 foot tall.

I bet there are no 7 foot tall eskimos.

Modern day eskimos do eat a lot of American junk food these days.

Comment on The Natural Communities of Georgia by Leslie Edwards, Jonathan Ambrose, and L. Katherine Kirkman by Mark L

Mark L — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:26:57 +0000

Correct Mark….but look at the diet differences between eskimos and Africans also….they (were) growning apart by each generation. Same for coyotes and red wolves. how much of a coyote’s diet is non-meat? A red wolf’s? To me this resembles orcas differentiating by diet. JMHO