Piranha caught in South FLA .. This wont help the cause...
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I understand the fear and response for invasive animals, and assuming invasive and dangerous animals where actually a government concern I'd get behind this move.
As smarter people than me have already sighted, its just so hypocritical the way government deals with the pet trade and wild life in general. Really nothing was accomplished in this poisoning without broader corrections to the DNR and the federal governments outlook on pets and wildlife.
As smarter people than me have already sighted, its just so hypocritical the way government deals with the pet trade and wild life in general. Really nothing was accomplished in this poisoning without broader corrections to the DNR and the federal governments outlook on pets and wildlife.
I just did a speech in regards to invasive species of fish in Florida. I wish I read this article before hand. This is exactly what I was talking about. Now because some guy couldn't take care of his fish a whole lake of fish had to suffer and die for it. People amaze me. They really do. What a shame..
I think maybe if rbp did populate FL in big numbers ppl would actually see their not a harm and dont KILL people!!! They just scanvenge (eat bugs, decaying matter etc) and fin nip in the wild.
And maybe one day we can all be further educated instead of hollywood making $$$$
And maybe one day we can all be further educated instead of hollywood making $$$$
I can agree with you completely. On TV they had a guy who went into a pool filled with rbp and they didnt even touch him. People see those fish as dangerous because of what hollywood has done. Stupid if you ask me.
Hello; Some of the more documentary type films that try to present natural topics without too much extra drama have scenes of schools of pirinha devouring flesh from native animals and such. It does happen.
One such film featured an interview with a native whose hand and face were disfigured from a pirinha attack as a boy. While such attacks were not presented as common in the film, they showed boys swimming in the same water as the pirinha, these type attacks have happened.
Hollywood may build up the hype, but there is cause for concern.
Piranhas rarely attacks healthy animals unless these animals were injured or struggling. Also most piranha attacks were during dry seasons when the water levels were low and also during nesting season where a male piranha protect his nest from anything. In short words, people must be attacked under special conditions.
And there is another problem: piranhas weren't only schooling fish that attacks or scavenging large animals and humans.
Not enough to worry about with alligators but now got snakeheads and piranhas in the waters down here....yikes!
Media feeding you some false information again.....There isn't a single of case where a bullseye snakehead attacked a Floridian after 20 years of living in Florida. You have better chances of being attack by an alligator than pythons, snakeheads or piranhas.
