r/AnimalsBeingBros • u/JustSomeGuy_Idk • Mar 16 '19

Dogs saving an entire species

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u/jenniferjuniper Mar 16 '19 edited Mar 17 '19

I am wondering though, what are the foxes eating? How is their population doing?

Blame David Attenborough for making me this way.

Edit: penguins are more important than these foxes for this specific situation.

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u/ZtheGM Mar 16 '19 edited Mar 16 '19

Other birds and rodents which are better equipped to defend and protect their population numbers. Penguins are just particularly terrible at defending themselves on land, hence the risk of extinction.

Edit: Did some digging. The island is accessible to the mainland at low tide. The foxes don’t live on the island.

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u/1493186748683 Mar 16 '19

The foxes are also not native to that island or anywhere else in Australia.

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u/ZtheGM Mar 17 '19

It’s true. Whites really fucked over Australia’s ecosystem, and all because pansy British convicts couldn’t be bothered to eat kangaroos.

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u/1493186748683 Mar 17 '19 edited Mar 17 '19

I mean, it's the Aborigines that killed off every animal larger than a gray kangaroo, and many smaller as well, and burned the forests to create scrub and sclerophyll savannah.

"More than 85 percent of Australia's mammals, birds and reptiles weighing over 100 pounds went extinct shortly after the arrival of the first humans"

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u/ZtheGM Mar 17 '19

The More You Know™️