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hirvi74 6 hours ago

I wonder if Japan would need robot wolves had they not wrongfully drove their native wolf species to extinction?

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storus 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How would native wolves prevent bears from coming down to human settlements?

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Loughla 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe there would be fewer bears? I honestly don't see the connection either, though.

	▲	hirvi74 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Without typing up a long comment, fewer bears indirectly, yes. I am curious of that would happen.

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toast0 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The wolves would come to town to get supplies for their friends, the bears?

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hirvi74 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because bears and wolves could compete for resources, bears might avoid areas that were commonly occupied by wolves, and young bear cubs have been documented to fall victim to the occasion wolf pack here and there, albeit the Japanese wolves were the smallest of the common wolf breeds.

I am not trying to say that Japanese wolves would solve the problem entirely, but I do think it is important to not try to sway ecological systems too much. Our interactions with nature can sometimes have unpredictable downstream effects.

If Japan were to be rid of bears, then I imagine their next problem would be sika or wild boars.

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sidibe 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They wouldn't have had to worry about bears or wolves if they had driven them both to extinction like many parts of the world

	▲	hirvi74 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
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