Timeline for What can prevent moderately advanced humans from driving megafauna to extinction?
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| Aug 4, 2017 at 3:29 | answer | added | Vashu | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 3, 2017 at 19:08 | answer | added | ShadoCat | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 8, 2016 at 16:18 | answer | added | James Ross | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Feb 27, 2016 at 5:50 | comment | added | Beta | @JonofAllTrades: Enforced low population density means no heavy industry, no deforestation, people can hunt, fish, farm, ranch and forge all they want without doing much damage. (I think one man could eradicate the dodo, but the dodo was practically designed for eradication-- the only way it could have been more doomed was if it had been delicious.) But a disease that works that way makes no sense, biologically. It can be designed by non-human sentients, but that doesn't fit the spirit of the question. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 17:50 | comment | added | user243 | @Beta: I think you're on to something, there. Population density is an enormous factor; one man probably couldn't exterminate the dodo, but at Hong Kong densities the only hope for megafauna is the zoo. So if the area, or possibly the animals themselves, are riddled with contagious diseases, that will discourage hunting, and settlement, especially at high densities. If you'd like to make it an answer, I'll upvote. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 8:21 | comment | added | Chieron | @Beta : the first one does not prevent it, just alleviates population pressure and feels pretty forced. The second one means that humanity will one day eradicate the megafauna in a coordinated action (as they are a thread to its very own survival). | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 5:07 | comment | added | Beta | I can think of only two solutions, and both of them require Zelaznian levels of magic-like science (wherefore I Comment, and do not Answer): 1) a plague that strikes whenever population density gets high, so that people can settle a large area without ever becoming very numerous, or 2) megafauna that act like swarming insects-- shoot one buffalo and the whole herd will go berserk and crush every human being within 500 miles. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 4:48 | comment | added | Xandar The Zenon | And there are, Indians, I think, that don't eat cows. I don't know a whole lot about that, I'm too busy eating hamburger to care. | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 3:28 | comment | added | Bob Jarvis - Слава Україні | Religious prohibitions against consuming large animals ("Let us read now from the Book of Cookery, chapter twelve, verses 1 through 42: And then St. Julia said, 'Eat thou not of the meat of the animal which walketh upon the land, nor of the fish of the sea, nor yet even of the bird the flyeth upon the wing, which doth weigh more than thou, for the Lord doth love the largest beasts more, and so thou shalt be punished'. And sadly, Brother Wilbert has eaten of the mastodon. What is the punishment, brethren?" "COOK HIM! ROAST THE BARSTUD!!!!". "Very well, Wilbert - ketchup, or barbecue sauce?") | |
| Feb 26, 2016 at 2:56 | answer | added | Pablo Costa | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:19 | comment | added | coblr | I remember once asking my dad why no one eats crows. They're massive and everywhere and probably taste like chicken. He said it was because they eat trash, like rotting stuff and also actual garbage, so the meat isn't that great. Perhaps something(s) that is so closely associated with filth that we actually can't fathom the idea of eating them. Also, maybe something that requires a huge amount time or effort to make a small amount edible could work. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 18:23 | history | edited | user243 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 18:03 | comment | added | user243 | @DJMethaneMan: surely anything with meat on it is at risk of being hunted, even if it's not dangerous to humans, their livestock, or their farms. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 17:26 | answer | added | Murphy | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 17:15 | answer | added | Madlozoz | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 17:06 | comment | added | Madlozoz | Cows and horses are Megafauna. So are whales and european bufallo survived. Breeding or not sharing territory is obvious answer | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 16:40 | history | edited | Tim B |
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| Feb 25, 2016 at 16:39 | answer | added | Tim B | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | Jax | Make megafauna that present no challenges whatsoever to humans and we will most likely not kill them. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 16:31 | answer | added | Henry Taylor | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 16:25 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 16 | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 16:12 | history | asked | user243 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |