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Now your bullyboy Grey squirrel is not happy with it's bullyboy tactics now it's all out biological warfare. :nope:
British red squirrels may face extinction
Big News Network.com
Monday 21st August, 2006 (UPI)
British scientists say they've determined, for the first time, the catastrophic effect of a deadly virus on Britain's native red squirrels.
The research shows squirrel poxvirus is threatening to wipe out red squirrels in northern England within 10 years. In areas where the virus has been detected, the rate of decline in reds is 17-to-25 times higher than where there has been no outbreak.
Until now the reds' main survival challenge was believed to be competition with gray squirrels over resources. However, scientists say their research highlights the urgency for new conservation strategies for the red squirrel -- a species that has been in Britain for 10,000 years and is protected under the nation's Wildlife and Countryside Act.
Squirrel poxvirus is passed to reds by gray squirrels, and probably arrived to Britain with some of the grays that were introduced from North America more than 100 years ago, researchers said. The virus does not appear to harm gray squirrels, but is fatal to reds.
The research was conducted by scientists at Newcastle University, the University of London; Scotland's Moredun Research Institute, the Zoological Society of London, and Britain's Forestry Commission.
http://www.britainnews.net/story/7eae3ec5df8a9c13
Camaero
08-22-06, 01:46 PM
Down with the commie squirrels!
SUBMAN1
08-22-06, 01:55 PM
Don't speak so soon. Look for a mutation or gene drift that produces an allele that renders a section of its population immune. It may have significant population loss which might ruin its diversity, but it could make a full comeback. I expect to see the red squirrel experience a bit of microevolution since nature always has a habit of finding a way.
-S
Are Hope, I like. :) :up:
Payback for the brown trout...
Skybird
08-22-06, 02:42 PM
Doesn'T take a virus to see red squirrels loosing ground to grey ones. It's old news. The grey ones simply are more aggressive and expand at alarming rates, they are also slightly bigger in size. the problem exists since many years in the better part of Europe. The reds are loosing.
Grey is no colour, so these grey squirrels are improperly dressed and are not regular squirrels and thus are not protected by the Geneva convention. Confess your colour, and death to all grey squirrels! We have our own squirrels, and they are much cuter!
I also have a red squirrel on my balcony, visiting me regularly since over two years. when I sit out there and do not move or only very slowly, it even sits on the table next to me, eventually even on my knee, and accepting nuts from the palm of my hands. Yeah, yeah, I know about the risk ob being bitten and getting infected with some desease, but I know this one since he was - hm, much smaller in size. We trust each otherk, you know. ;) He has a black dot at the tip of his tail, I can recognize him easily from any other squirrel around. A couple of times he even hopped into my main living room, had a look and checked some things, and then left again.
Charming!
SUBMAN1
08-22-06, 02:43 PM
Are Hope, I like. :) :up:
Imagine this - Grey squirrel does Red squirrel and and the appropriate allele is transfered, resulting in a hybrid squirrel which is neither Red nor Grey and is immune. Microevolution on a gene flow basis.
-S
TteFAboB
08-22-06, 05:53 PM
Oh why, ship every Red Squirrel to Australia untill you deal with this problem! :rotfl:
snowsub
08-22-06, 06:15 PM
Oh why, ship every Red Squirrel to Australia untill you deal with this problem! :rotfl:
That's not funny :stare:
;)
Simple solution here: Red squirrels should never have have accepted that 'gift' of new blankets from the Grey colonials :lol:
On the plus side, Greys are classed as vermin under UK law so you can shoot them at any time of the year you like :dead:
Greys are bigger and more aggressive and voracious foragers, they breed faster too. The cheeky little buggers are pretty adept when it comes to food - our bird feeder in the garden is frequently ransacked by some chittering little chap who seems quite taken with what's on offer to the birds and thinks nothing of it to steal the entire mesh bag! lol.
Find a niche and exploit it seems to be the grey squirrel motto...:hmm:
The Avon Lady
08-23-06, 04:15 AM
Simple solution
Simpler solution (http://www.herbalhenna.com/Products/big8.gif). :yep:
^^
very drol Avon, hehe
I can just see Andie McDowel now - "Because you're worth it!"
lmao
The Noob
08-23-06, 04:23 AM
Doesn'T take a virus to see red squirrels loosing ground to grey ones. It's old news. The grey ones simply are more aggressive and expand at alarming rates, they are also slightly bigger in size. the problem exists since many years in the better part of Europe. The reds are loosing.
Grey is no colour, so these grey squirrels are improperly dressed and are not regular squirrels and thus are not protected by the Geneva convention. Confess your colour, and death to all grey squirrels! We have our own squirrels, and they are much cuter!
Yes!
But i see it as a Symbol for Western "Culture Invasion" in Europe. Don't understand me Wrong, i love Mc Donalds, but enought is Enought. Now They already want to Destroy our Squirrels...:rotfl: (Slightly Joking)
The Native Red ones get Bushed...err...Pushed Back by the Rude Grey ones.
I don't like This. I wanna Keep my Commie Squirrels! :yep::rotfl:
IT'S WAR
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6646/warsw8.png
Doesn'T take a virus to see red squirrels loosing ground to grey ones. It's old news. The grey ones simply are more aggressive and expand at alarming rates, they are also slightly bigger in size. the problem exists since many years in the better part of Europe. The reds are loosing.
Grey is no colour, so these grey squirrels are improperly dressed and are not regular squirrels and thus are not protected by the Geneva convention. Confess your colour, and death to all grey squirrels! We have our own squirrels, and they are much cuter!
Yes!
But i see it as a Symbol for Western "Culture Invasion" in Europe. Don't understand me Wrong, i love Mc Donalds, but enought is Enought. Now They already want to Destroy our Squirrels...:rotfl: (Slightly Joking)
The Native Red ones get Bushed...err...Pushed Back by the Rude Grey ones.
I don't like This. I wanna Keep my Commie Squirrels! :yep::rotfl:
We have declared squirrel jihad upon your infidel heads for infiltrating your brown trout (brownshirt trout) over here, which is displacing our innocent mujahadin brook trouts.
SkvyWvr
08-23-06, 07:53 AM
Hey!!:huh: The article said "North American". They could be from Canada or Mexico.:shifty:
we are grey..we stand between the candle and the light..:doh:
The Avon Lady
08-23-06, 08:01 AM
Hey!!:huh: The article said "North American". They could be from Canada or Mexico.:shifty:
Both Canada and Mexico are located in the Americas. So the thread title is valid in any case. :know:
we are grey..we stand between the candle and the light..:doh:
isn't that from Nightwatch?:-?
Neptunus Rex
08-23-06, 09:23 AM
They're Super Secret Sleeper Squirrels. When given the code word, their mission is to throw English nuts into the harbor!
:arrgh!:
SkvyWvr
08-23-06, 10:02 AM
Hey!!:huh: The article said "North American". They could be from Canada or Mexico.:shifty:
Both Canada and Mexico are located in the Americas. So the thread title is valid in any case. :know:
Sorry. Over here America is used in place of The United States quite a bit.
Perilscope
08-23-06, 10:10 AM
Introduced species is a problem all over the world; very few find good coexistence with the native natural world, plant or animal alike. Humankind is truly a pest for this matter. Moreover, it costs a lot each year for any country to find a solution to their respective problem, one country in particular is Australia, good luck to them :nope:
The Avon Lady
08-23-06, 10:15 AM
Hey!!:huh: The article said "North American". They could be from Canada or Mexico.:shifty:
Both Canada and Mexico are located in the Americas. So the thread title is valid in any case. :know:
Sorry. Over here America is used in place of The United States quite a bit.
I was born and grew up in "America." I'm quite familiar with that. ;)
moose1am
08-23-06, 11:33 AM
LOL I was going to suggest red spray paint but I like your idea better. :)
Those British Squirrels are different that our squirrels here across the pond.
Here in the USA the Fox squirrels are red squirrels and they are larger and more agressive than our gray squirrels. We have some other squirrels out west but I am not that familar with those as I live in the Midwest. Here in Indiana we have two species of squirrels. Fox and Gray.
Simple solution
Simpler solution (http://www.herbalhenna.com/Products/big8.gif). :yep:
SUBMAN1
08-23-06, 12:27 PM
No one likes my hybrid squirrel :shifty:
Konovalov
08-24-06, 05:31 AM
Can I have a "Thanks a bunch England" thread for all the introduced species into my country that have created so many problems for our native flaura and fauna. And when I refer to introduced species I'm not talking about the English who emigrate to Australia only to whinge and complain about how hot it is and how crummy the beer is. ;)
You guys seem to be doing quite well with the cane toad problem ;)
http://cane-toad.com/movie.php
see, you even make animated funny movies about 'em now... lol
but yes, you're right about the beer; Fosters tastes like p1ss :lol: :-j
Konovalov
08-24-06, 07:10 AM
You guys seem to be doing quite well with the cane toad problem ;)
http://cane-toad.com/movie.php
see, you even make animated funny movies about 'em now... lol
but yes, you're right about the beer; Fosters tastes like p1ss :lol: :-j
:rotfl: :rotfl: How true.
we are grey..we stand between the candle and the light..:doh:
isn't that from Nightwatch?:-?
Babylon 5?? Grey counsil?? :hmm:
^^
ah, of course! Delene or whatever her name was - the membari with hair :o
we are grey..we stand between the candle and the light..:doh:
isn't that from Nightwatch?:-?
Babylon 5?? Grey counsil?? :hmm:
:up: not sure i got the quote bang on...but it's close enough for jazz..:lol:
we are grey..we stand between the candle and the light..:doh:
isn't that from Nightwatch?:-?
Babylon 5?? Grey counsil?? :hmm: :up: not sure i got the quote bang on...but it's close enough for jazz..:lol:
I think there´s multiple versions of it. Just 30min ago I watched the episode 'War without end' and there Delenn says: We are grey, we stand between the candle and the star(s). But I´ve heard the candle-light version too. I think it was from season 1. Yes, I´m a fan of B5. :rotfl:
yep..there has to scope for a new series...you know the one where the telepaths finaly do get their own homeworld -join the alliance and we get to see the telepath wars unfold..psi corps and the still disgruntled earthforce clarkers versus the universe at large..i'd buy it...mind you it won't be the same without Ghakar
yep..there has to scope for a new series...you know the one where the telepaths finaly do get their own homeworld -join the alliance and we get to see the telepath wars unfold..psi corps and the still disgruntled earthforce clarkers versus the universe at large..i'd buy it...mind you it won't be the same without Ghakar
I´m gettig to be abit drunk at this time of the day, so I didnt understand much of what you sad. New series? You mean the Crusader?? Fill me in! (wiht beer if you got any!!)
I´m gettig to be abit drunk at this time of the day, so I didnt understand much of what you sad. New series? You mean the Crusader?? Fill me in! (wiht beer if you got any!!)
no no AFAIK there's no new series being made but given the endless scope of the series there's no shortages of plots available..telepath war..the draak..even showing the history of the original shadow war surrounding babylon 4!!
now there's a thought!!! a brand new series called Babylon 4!!
i haven't seen crusade but i'll buy it sooner or later..
sadly apart from that rumour about a new B5 movie there's nothing AFAIK:roll:
definitely like the idea of a new series called babylon 4!!
Geoffry Sinclair would be the ideal character to tie the two series together..even if he can't act his way out of a paper bag..which is part of the charm in a way!
IMO, there can be no other B(put number here) series. The characters in the B5 were unique. Garibaldi, Sheridan, Ivanova, Londo, Vir, G´Kar and Dr. Franklin. It would be nothing without those characters.
PS. It´s Jeffrey (David) Sinclair :up:
Sailor Steve
08-25-06, 05:11 PM
And the fates of the previous four Babylon stations are discussed in the series; especially Babylon 4 which was the one Sinclair took back in time when he...but that would be telling.
Of course there could be a series based 1000 years in the past, telling how the current Minbari peoples came about.
And the fates of the previous four Babylon stations are discussed in the series; especially Babylon 4 which was the one Sinclair took back in time when he...but that would be telling.
Of course there could be a series based 1000 years in the past, telling how the current Minbari peoples came about.
yup that's precisely what i was talking about...and the show would be called babylon 4 lol
follow the B4 station back thru time and continue the imaginary new series from the perspective of babylon 4 , Sinclair zaffros et al
if not a new series it would make an excellent new movie...
Sailor Steve
08-26-06, 11:27 AM
Aha! Got it. And you might be right; it might make a good movie.
"Babylon 4: Rise of the Minbari"
Of course new viewers might wonder where they can get a copy of Babylon 1, 2 and 3.
Aha! Got it. And you might be right; it might make a good movie.
"Babylon 4: Rise of the Minbari"
Of course new viewers might wonder where they can get a copy of Babylon 1, 2 and 3.
:yep: :up: "The life and times of Jinkso" maybe???:D
The Noob
09-04-06, 12:10 PM
IT'S WAR
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6646/warsw8.png
http://www.suicidal-tendencies.net/images/Rambo-Squirrel.jpg
Sir, do we get to Win this time?
:rotfl::rotfl:
IT'S WAR
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/6646/warsw8.png
http://www.suicidal-tendencies.net/images/Rambo-Squirrel.jpg
Sir, do we get to Win this time?
:rotfl::rotfl:
We shall fight them on the land and in the bushes, we shall hold are ground and take back are lost trees, we shall not stop until final victory. :ping:
XabbaRus
09-04-06, 12:57 PM
We have Red ones up here in the north east of scotland.
Haven't seen greys yet, will shoot them with my air-rifle first chance I get.
buggers...doesn't help that in england idiots feed them in parks cos they're cute..
arggghh.
The Noob
09-04-06, 01:53 PM
We have Red ones up here in the north east of scotland.
Haven't seen greys yet, will shoot them with my air-rifle first chance I get.
buggers...doesn't help that in england idiots feed them in parks cos they're cute..
arggghh.
Hey..calm down. They ARE Cute.;)
Still, i prefer my Commie ones...:yep:
JSLTIGER
09-05-06, 10:15 AM
Can I have a "Thanks a bunch England" thread for all the introduced species into my country that have created so many problems for our native flaura and fauna. And when I refer to introduced species I'm not talking about the English who emigrate to Australia only to whinge and complain about how hot it is and how crummy the beer is. ;)
You don't have the right to make statements against the Brits like that, PRISONER!!!! :lol::lol::rotfl::rotfl:
Konovalov
09-05-06, 10:46 AM
Can I have a "Thanks a bunch England" thread for all the introduced species into my country that have created so many problems for our native flaura and fauna. And when I refer to introduced species I'm not talking about the English who emigrate to Australia only to whinge and complain about how hot it is and how crummy the beer is. ;)
You don't have the right to make statements against the Brits like that, PRISONER!!!! :lol::lol::rotfl::rotfl:
Actually it's convict, not prisoner. And how daft was it of the Brits to send the convicts to sunny Australia. Surely they should have left the convicts in Britain and emigrated to Australia with it's sun, sand and surf. :D
The Avon Lady
09-05-06, 11:07 AM
And stingrays and great white sharks and box jellyfish and ....................
Those clever Brits! :know:
And stingrays and great white sharks and box jellyfish and ....................
Those clever Brits! :know:
Blue ring octopus and the funnel web spider. :eek:
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