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[quote=Anonymous]It baffles my mind how people can graduate school with zero understanding of ecology.

When you wipe out a species, there are huge effects throughout the entire ecosystem. Alligators are apex predators, and without them, mammal populations would skyrocket. These mammals prey on birds, so bird populations would crash. Fewer birds means WAY more bugs.

Do you want to live in a world of just bugs and rats? I don’t.

And don’t say we’d only remove alligators from where humans are; humans are literally everywhere. And alligators have been hunted to near extinction before; they were listened as endangered in the 1960s.

Learn to live with wildlife, people. It’s not nearly as dangerous as you think. I live in the Southwest, and I promise you I pass a rattlesnake every time I go on a walk. There are scorpions in my home. I feel lucky AF when I find a tarantula. There’s zero doubt in my mind I’ve passed mountain lions before, I just didn’t see them.

It’s so sad to me that people are so afraid of nature and so ignorant of how to interact with nature safely. [/quote]

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