Timeline for What can prevent moderately advanced humans from driving megafauna to extinction?
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| Nov 20, 2019 at 13:40 | comment | added | Adrian K-B. | Either not worth making extinct, or worth not making extinct. Once people can farm, they farm them rather than hunting them, just like bigger cows. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 22:22 | comment | added | Madlozoz | As seen from Indonesia, Muslim farmers do not hunt wild pigs. I guess that when your religion merely forbid you to hunt for food, it's hard to convince you to learn such a skill with no immediate effect (need years of hunting before significant effects). | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:35 | comment | added | Tim B | @JonofAllTrades you raise a good point. A lot is going to depend on human population density. If human density is low enough then one of those traits would be enough to keep them alive. As human density rises it becomes harder and harder no matter what traits you give them. We're apex predators for a reason. We're the most vicious and deadly species on the planet. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:32 | comment | added | coblr | @Jon: touché my friend. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:27 | comment | added | user243 | @Fractalspawn: but an animal needs to be useless for it to be of no interest to hunters, and harmless for farmers to not kill them off. So every large animal would need to be poisonous, or at least unpalatable, and also have no useful body products, and also not be interesting to hunt for trophies, and must not eat farmers' crops, and must not feed on livestock. If it has any of these qualities, people will hunt them, at least opportunistically. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 21:15 | comment | added | coblr | You could divide up these traits and spread them across a set of animals. Maybe the dog/cat/sheep sized ones taste bad, and live on cliffs like mountain goats, maybe the cow/horse/alligator sized ones are poisonous and only eat the dog/cat animals or are herbivores, and the larger elephant/girraffe ones have no horns or fur, or if they do, they decay or rot away quickly once separated from the live animal. They don't all have to be poisonous & furless & tusk-less & hard to catch. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 18:06 | comment | added | user243 | This is a good way to ensure a couple of species survive, but it's hard to imagine a whole ecology of tasteless furless tuskless animals, not even good for trophies. | |
| Feb 25, 2016 at 16:39 | history | answered | Tim B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |