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(Canada.com) Interesting Problem: Australia infested with invasive African grass that fuels wildfires. Solution: Import elephants and rhinos as lawnmowers   (canada.com) divider line 113
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brigid_fitch [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 10:48:34 AM
Sure, Australia--introduce another non-native species. After all, it's going so well with the rabbits.
 
I_C_Weener [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 10:53:41 AM
And when the elephants and rhinos breed like rats, what will they import to eat the rhinos and elephants?
 
Norv Turner
2012-02-01 10:55:35 AM
media.treehugger.com
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 11:08:08 AM
Do the words "rabbit-proof fence" strike a familiar note?
www.convictcreations.com
/hop
 
Gig103 [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 11:22:44 AM
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.

Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?

Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?

Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!

Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
 
SnarfVader [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 12:13:11 PM
I_C_Weener: And when the elephants and rhinos breed like rats, what will they import to eat the rhinos and elephants?

i212.photobucket.com
 
Revek [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 12:39:58 PM
They need something that eats the Cane Toad (new window).
 
Tziva [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 12:42:21 PM
Has this idea ever worked out well? Anywhere?

Australia, the country that never learns.
 
Tziva [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 12:46:42 PM
Then they're just going to have to get bigger, more aggressive elephants to cull the population of these ones when they become a problem...
 
KangTheMad
2012-02-01 01:44:34 PM
Yes, because this worked out so well with the cane toads
 
Paris1127 [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 01:45:26 PM
Revek: They need something that eats the Cane Toad (new window).

www.politicalpundit.com.au
I wish they'd update this gif. Cane toads have already made it to Darwin.
 
Flakeloaf
2012-02-01 01:47:50 PM
brigid_fitch: Sure, Australia--introduce another non-native species.

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all the good names are gone [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 01:48:52 PM
brigid_fitch: Sure, Australia--introduce another non-native species. After all, it's going so well with the rabbits.

And the aborigines.
 
capitulating fromage masticating simian
2012-02-01 01:49:58 PM
If only pandas ate grass, Australia could import them as mowers, and not work about any population explosion,out competing the less well adapted natives to extinction.
 
whither_apophis
2012-02-01 01:50:08 PM
If it helps the elephant and rhino populations I'm for it. And we'll be trolling paleontologists a million years in the future.

/"how the fark did elephants get to Australia??"
 
Rev. Skarekroe [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 01:51:09 PM
I_C_Weener: And when the elephants and rhinos breed like rats, what will they import to eat the rhinos and elephants?

Chinese people.
 
Evil Mackerel
2012-02-01 01:52:21 PM
SnarfVader: I_C_Weener: And when the elephants and rhinos breed like rats, what will they import to eat the rhinos and elephants?

[i212.photobucket.com image 400x604]

The Chinese.
 
Ivo Shandor
2012-02-01 01:53:39 PM
Revek: They need something that eats the Cane Toad (new window).

Meet the bluetongue lizard (new window).
 
Evil Mackerel
2012-02-01 01:54:46 PM
Rev. Skarekroe: I_C_Weener: And when the elephants and rhinos breed like rats, what will they import to eat the rhinos and elephants?

Chinese people.

damn , I was too slow.
 
yert
2012-02-01 01:55:56 PM
I thought Australia was full of mice. I don't' think they have thought this all the way through.
 
watson.t.hamster
2012-02-01 01:56:05 PM
Will goats not eat it?
 
MontanaDave
2012-02-01 01:56:21 PM
If they have grass they need to get rid of, they should have imported Cheech and Chong, Spiccoli, a bunch of Rastafarians, and the bulk of us Farkers.
 
phlegmmo [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 01:57:03 PM
"How are we going to get rid of the grass?"

"Elephino."
 
GameSprocket
2012-02-01 01:58:00 PM
Bonus - Thriving safari industry!
 
Burr
2012-02-01 01:58:49 PM
Norv Turner: [media.treehugger.com image 468x383]

Get your Chazzwazzer out of here!
 
yert
2012-02-01 01:59:49 PM
Perhaps it is like switch grass and they can turn it into bio diesel.


/heh-heh
 
skinnyartist
2012-02-01 02:00:06 PM
img.webme.com

This will end well.
 
Oznog
2012-02-01 02:00:59 PM
sqkisiggy.files.wordpress.com

How about lions and tigers, so they'll be like Kenya?
 
Slaves2Darkness
2012-02-01 02:01:10 PM
Why don't they just invent bio-matter fueled robo-cows with lasers?
 
Crewmannumber6
2012-02-01 02:02:48 PM
Australians say 'Whea's tha cah?'
i248.photobucket.com
New Zealanders say 'Whea's tha cah?'
 
imontheinternet
2012-02-01 02:04:08 PM
Seems reasonable. The rhino and elephant population will be held in check by Australia's dropbears, nature's most feared predators.
 
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
2012-02-01 02:04:53 PM
It should be fun when they spill over into Germany.
 
arghyematey
2012-02-01 02:05:18 PM
It actually is kind of an interesting idea. Mostly because I know that poaching of rhinos and elephants continues to be out of control. Besides, people introducing "exotic species" to new lands is not a new idea... the wild horses of today are not native to North America, but I bet most people don't know that.

Then again, I wouldn't want to have introduced elephants running around in my backyard.
 
yert
2012-02-01 02:05:45 PM
Oznog: [sqkisiggy.files.wordpress.com image 475x350]

How about lions and tigers, so they'll be like Kenya?

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Sock Ruh Tease
2012-02-01 02:05:50 PM
Getting immigrants to do lawn work. Typical.
 
Kuta
2012-02-01 02:06:08 PM
I can't wait till the elephants and rhinoceros evolve lethal poison glands like everything else down under.
 
vpb [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 02:09:11 PM
What if the elephants crossbreed with the platypus and become venomous? It is Australia after all.
 
theorellior [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 02:09:22 PM
Ivo Shandor: Meet the bluetongue lizard.

That was very interesting.
 
professor_tom
2012-02-01 02:13:17 PM
As if Australia didn't have sheep.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8385068.stm
 
mortimer_ford
2012-02-01 02:17:48 PM
Kuta: I can't wait till the elephants and rhinoceros evolve lethal poison glands like everything else down under.

You don't know what a sting is until you've been impaled by a venomous elephant tusk.
 
BigNumber12 [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 02:20:03 PM
Elephants and maybe rhinoceroses could be introduced to Australia to chomp on an invasive African grass that also causes wildfires


Are you sure that's the word you're looking for, Mr. France-Presse?
 
Keizer_Ghidorah
2012-02-01 02:22:21 PM
Flakeloaf: brigid_fitch: Sure, Australia--introduce another non-native species.

[fklebe.files.wordpress.com image 294x240]

all the good names are gone: brigid_fitch: Sure, Australia--introduce another non-native species. After all, it's going so well with the rabbits.

And the aborigines.

The aborigines and dingoes lived in Australia for tens of thousands of years without any effect on the continent.
 
Rip Dashrock
2012-02-01 02:25:02 PM
So the elephants and rhinos eat the grass, but then lions and tigers are imported to cull the heards of said animals. But then the lions and tigers become a problem, so a intestinal parasite is released to cull the lions and tigers. But the ticks that transmit the parasite only live in a certain type of African wildgrass.....
The circle of life.
 
simplicimus [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 02:27:33 PM
I think elephants and rhinos would be easier to spot than cane toads and rabbits.
 
This text is now purple
2012-02-01 02:30:47 PM
arghyematey: It actually is kind of an interesting idea. Mostly because I know that poaching of rhinos and elephants continues to be out of control. Besides, people introducing "exotic species" to new lands is not a new idea... the wild horses of today are not native to North America, but I bet most people don't know that.

Then again, I wouldn't want to have introduced elephants running around in my backyard.

It's fairer to say that the mustangs were reintroduced to their ancestral range. Horses are actually originally native to the Americas.
 
themadtupper [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 02:31:23 PM
whither_apophis: /"how the fark did elephants get to Australia??"

Clinging to driftwood. Like the camels.
 
anuran
2012-02-01 02:37:34 PM
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed that fly...
 
HAMMERTOE
2012-02-01 02:41:52 PM
Revek: They need something that eats the Cane Toad

Import the French. Once the cane toads are gone, pick a fight with the French.
 
yert
2012-02-01 02:42:05 PM
anuran: I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed that fly...

perhaps she'll die

I know an old lady who swallowed a spider which wiggle and jiggled and tickled inside her.
she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know why she swallowed that fly...
 
ows
2012-02-01 02:47:03 PM
it's not over till somebody releases the gorillas.
 
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