Comments on: Invasive Salamander Carries on Endangered Genes While Killing off Natives http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Dr. Iggly Piggly http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9742 Dr. Iggly Piggly Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:16:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9742 I believe I'll root for the HYBRID SALAMANDERS. It's just like modern man to out all his hair worrying about salamander sex lives. Some humanoid ape dumped some Texan TIGER SALAMANDERS over in with the California TIGER SALAMANDERS, and some eggheads somehow think it's their business to try and cook up some kind of salamander genocide that will eliminate these "invasive hybrids". Don't worry, eggheads, soon it's all gonna come down, and we'll be in the Second Stone Age. Nature will make very innovative adjustments, and we probably won't be sailing around on ships, mixing all the damn animals up again, for tens of thousands of years to come. I believe I’ll root for the HYBRID SALAMANDERS.

It’s just like modern man to out all his hair worrying about salamander
sex lives. Some humanoid ape dumped some Texan TIGER SALAMANDERS over in with the California TIGER SALAMANDERS, and some eggheads somehow think it’s their business to try and cook up some kind of salamander genocide that will eliminate these “invasive hybrids”.

Don’t worry, eggheads, soon it’s all gonna come down, and we’ll be in the Second Stone Age. Nature will make very innovative adjustments, and we probably won’t be sailing around on ships, mixing all the damn animals up again, for tens of thousands of years to come.

]]> By: michelle http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9741 michelle Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:09:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9741 I think the pr0cess of energy and life will bring about new forms of Salamander. When this one runs out of food source; it will relocate or become something else. Nature always finds a way to bring about new life. Maybe even a bigger stronger type; which will better be able to defend itself. Life always finds a way to live on! Maybe different, but there will be life! I think the pr0cess of energy and life will bring about new forms of Salamander. When this one runs out of food source; it will relocate or become something else. Nature always finds a way to bring about new life. Maybe even a bigger stronger type; which will better be able to defend itself.
Life always finds a way to live on! Maybe different, but there will be life!

]]> By: Duane http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9740 Duane Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:20:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9740 Just because hybridization is one of the outcomes of this introduction of an alien species does not mean that it is "evolution". Extinctions did happen before humans arrived. But now extinctions are occuring at a tremendous rate, because people are not careful about what habitat they destroy or how they move species around. Ecologically, this is not really different from any other introduction of a non-native predator - and that type of introduction has caused the rapid extinction, extirpation, or marginalization of native species time and time again. Just because hybridization is one of the outcomes of this introduction of an alien species does not mean that it is “evolution”. Extinctions did happen before humans arrived. But now extinctions are occuring at a tremendous rate, because people are not careful about what habitat they destroy or how they move species around. Ecologically, this is not really different from any other introduction of a non-native predator – and that type of introduction has caused the rapid extinction, extirpation, or marginalization of native species time and time again.

]]> By: Ralph http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9739 Ralph Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:02:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9739 I was actually thinking the exact same thing as you Nick. I was actually thinking the exact same thing as you Nick.

]]> By: Nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9738 Nick Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:08:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/30/invasive-salamander-carries-on-endangered-genes-while-killing-off-natives/#comment-9738 Can't stop evolution, baby! I mean, seriously, stuff like this happened before humans came around. It will continue after we've evolved into something else. Can’t stop evolution, baby!

I mean, seriously, stuff like this happened before humans came around. It will continue after we’ve evolved into something else.

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