Phy posted:

Some jamoke introduced them to Patagonia, where they have become an invasive species that has blighted forests that didn't evolve to cope with being chewed up and drowned all the time
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-brought-humans-beavers-threaten-patagonia.html

The New Zealand moose seem to have been much better neighbors

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

I hope in the far future, when mankind has mastered terraforming, we designate one planet to be the Ecological Thunderdome

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

also, less funny but still very cool - the bronze age in the Levant being kicked off with cornish tin

Extensive stone-age trade networks are fun to me, ok

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

[Tides of History] is my favorite pod for this stuff.

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

the Hippo Plan, where America planned to import hippos for meat and just let them roam free in Louisiana

Alhazred posted:

In 1901 the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization needed money badly. It was decided that simply robbing people would make them look bad but holding people hostage for ransom was acceptable. So in august one the leaders, Yane Sandanski, kidnapped the american missionaries Ellen Maria Stone and Katerina Stefanova-Cilka (who were pregnant at the time). Their demand were 25,000 Tturkish pounds. President Roosevelt denied to pay it, but allowed a private fund raising. They managed to raise 14,000 Tturkish gold liras which the milita accepted and an exchange happened. They then discovered that a sort of reverse stockholm syndrome had happened. The militia had helped Stefanova-Cilka deliver her baby, cared for it and even held a thanksgiving dinner for their hostages. The militia also complained about how Ellen Stone had treated them, saying: "Have you ever found yourself in a position of strong opposition to a middle-aged woman with a determined will all her own? She assuming the attitude that you are a brute and making you feel like a brute?"

Alhazred posted:

Apparently she constantly tried to convert them into christians.

Ichabod Sexbeast posted:

I hope in the far future, when mankind has mastered terraforming, we designate one planet to be the Ecological Thunderdome

or we just write off an isolated island on earth idk just spitballing here

e: gently caress me that's a terrible snipe

erm

the Hippo Plan, where America planned to import hippos for meat and just let them roam free in Louisiana

also, less funny but still very cool - the bronze age in the Levant being kicked off with cornish tin

Extensive stone-age trade networks are fun to me, ok

Alhazred posted:

Hippos are actually an invasive species in Colombia. Pablo Escobar imported them to his private zoo and after his death they escaped.

Platystemon posted:

“Australia exports feral camels to Arabia” sounds fake as hell but is absolutely true.

Helith posted:

Australia has a feral camel population in the outback because the British imported camels from Afghanistan and British India, along with their cameleers, to help with transport and construction as they colonized and explored central and western Australia.
When cars became popular the camels got released into the wild where they thrived. There's about a million of them out there now.

Beachcomber posted:

I wish Americas feral camels hadn't died out.

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

Australia also sells sand to Saudi Arabia!

Helith posted:

Australia has a feral camel population in the outback because the British imported camels from Afghanistan and British India, along with their cameleers, to help with transport and construction as they colonized and explored central and western Australia.
When cars became popular the camels got released into the wild where they thrived. There's about a million of them out there now.

thetoughestbean posted:

I hate when the woman I kidnapped makes me feel like a brute

Azhais posted:

Bell's New Weekly Messenger, April 30, 1837, p. 6-7 posted:

A DEARLY-BOUGHT KISS

Caroline Newton was indicted for assaulting Thomoas Saverland and biting off his nose. The complainant, whose face bore incontestible evidence of the severe injury inflicted, the fleshy part of the left nostril being completely gone, stated that on the day after Christmas Day he was in a tap-room where were defendant and her sister. The sister laughingly observed that she had left her young man down at Birmingham, and had promised him no man should kiss her while absent. Complainant regarded this observation as a challenge, especially it being holiday time, and caught hold of her and kissed her. She took it in good part as joke, but defendant became angry, and desired she might have as little of that kind of fun as he pleased. Complainant told her if she was angry he would kiss her also and tried to do it. A scuffle ensued, and they both fell to the ground. After they got up complainant went and stood by the fire, and the defendant followed and struck at him. He again closed with her and tried to kiss her, and in the scuffle he was heard to cry out, She has got my nose in her mouth.” When they parted he was bleeding profusely from the nose, and a portion of it, which defendant had bitten off, she was seen to spit out of her mouth upon the ground. The defendant, a fat, middle-aged woman, treated the matter with great levity, and said he had no business to kiss her sister, or attempt to kiss her, in a public house; they were not such kind of people.

If she wanted to be kissed, she had a husband to kiss her, and he was a much handsomer man than defendant ever was, even before he lost his nose. The Chairman told the jury that it mattered little which way their verdict went. If they found her guilty the court would not fine her more than 1s., as the prosecutor had brought the punishment on himself. The jury, without hesitation, acquitted her. The Chairman told the prosecutor he was sorry for the loss of his nose, but if he would play with cats, he must expect to get scratched. Turning to the jury, the Chairman afterwards said, "Gentlemen, my opinion is that if a man attempts to kiss a woman against her will, she has a right to bite his nose off if she has a fancy for so doing."-"And eat it too," added a learned gentleman at the bar. The case caused much laughter to all except the poor complainant.

Alhazred posted:

Australia's fauna is basically 90% feral animals and 10% spiders.

Imagined posted:

Isn't the hippo the most dangerous wild animal in Africa by some huge margin? (Not counting mosquitoes, of course)

Imagined posted:

Isn't the hippo the most dangerous wild animal in Africa by some huge margin? (Not counting mosquitoes, of course)

Imagined posted:

Isn't the hippo the most dangerous wild animal in Africa by some huge margin? (Not counting mosquitoes, of course)

Blues Hammer posted:

I thought that was the cape buffalo?

FreudianSlippers posted:

i´ve probably seen more black arctic foxes than white ones.