Goopy bits

[Ben Lamb]

Neat article about lion predation & what ecological impacts cats have:

Mountain lion kill sites give vegetation a boost, new study shows - WyoFile

Researchers examined soil samples and plant growth at hundreds of carcass sites to find connections with landscape health.

wyofile.com

 

[TheTone]

Couldn’t the same be said for any carcass in the woods regardless of how it died?

 

[WildWill]

It took 4 years to understand what you're told in the first 30 minutes of lion king?

 

[thomas89]

This is why college/advanced education is so astronomically expensive anymore. No one told this “researcher” that question has already been asked and answered. Find something else to study. “Decaying organic matter increases ground nutrients”. Ya think?

FFS, can you believe they drew a paycheck to study this crap!? FOR 10 YEARS!!

 

[rtraverdavis]

I think the point is the motivation of the cat for killing. They’re doing it for the soil. Good kitty.

 

[TheTone]

This is why college/advanced education is so astronomically expensive anymore. No one told this “researcher” that question has already been asked and answered. Find something else to study. “Decaying organic matter increases ground nutrients”. Ya think?

FFS, can you believe they drew a paycheck to study this crap!? FOR 10 YEARS!!

To be fair it appears that it wasn’t a university project but private school/independent research, but yeah done by people who seem to have a particular affinity for big cats to begin with

 

[Ben Lamb]

Couldn’t the same be said for any carcass in the woods regardless of how it died?

Yep.

I think the point is the motivation of the cat for killing. They’re doing it for the soil. Good kitty.

 

[MTelkHuntress]

"A U-Haul of dirt, thousands of individual samples and 13 undergraduate students analyzing soil and plant quality later, she could prove that plants growing where carcasses decomposed had higher quantities of protein."

Cool stuff. It's neat that they have data to point to in how the carcasses benefit the vegetation.

 

[El Jason]

Neat article.

 

[Dougfirtree]

"A U-Haul of dirt, thousands of individual samples and 13 undergraduate students analyzing soil and plant quality later, she could prove that plants growing where carcasses decomposed had higher quantities of protein."

Cool stuff. It's neat that they have data to point to in how the carcasses benefit the vegetation.

I think this is the important part. Lots of studies seem silly and obvious, as if we're confirming common sense. However, common sense is not admissible in court and can't really help secure the reasoning behind contentious policy. Sometimes you just have to make it official..

 

[TOGIE]

we deride the benign conclusions of scientific rigor as "obvious" & "silly" and contentious ones as "fake news"

fun world we live in

 

[Sytes]

Ahhh, a cute article for the kitties. A beautiful step to join their woof compadres in their ungulate euthanization, "Save the Planet" endeavors.

 

[TakeABreakAndTouchGrass]

"A U-Haul of dirt, thousands of individual samples and 13 undergraduate students analyzing soil and plant quality later, she could prove that plants growing where carcasses decomposed had higher quantities of protein."

Cool stuff. It's neat that they have data to point to in how the carcasses benefit the vegetation.

Potential future evidence in a murder trial with the state proving that the victim was killed/deposited in a certain location due to increased protein content of surrounding vegetation? The episode of Law and Order practically writes itself!

 

[Ben Lamb]

Ahhh, a cute article for the kitties. A beautiful step to join their woof compadres in their ungulate euthanization, "Save the Planet" endeavors.

 

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Oh, I'm sorry Ben,

"It's a cute story". That satisfy your thread?

 

[Ben Lamb]

Oh, I'm sorry Ben,

"It's a cute story". That satisfy your thread?

 

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[Sytes]

All kidding aside, any hunter or livestock rancher knows this as a fact. I've visited prior gutless method kill sites and... Tadda!

The grants/funding for such a study seem a waste. Pun intended.

I need to invest in a plot of land where humans are given the opportunity to improve the soil vs hunker in a casket. Call it the, "Park of the Past".

 

[noharleyyet]

All kidding aside, any hunter or livestock rancher knows this as a fact. I've visited prior gutless method kill sites and... Tadda!

The grants/funding for such a study seem a waste. Pun intended.

I need to invest in a plot of land where humans are given the opportunity to improve the soil vs hunker in a casket. Call it the, "Park of the Past".

 

[TheTone]

All kidding aside, any hunter or livestock rancher knows this as a fact. I've visited prior gutless method kill sites and... Tadda!

The grants/funding for such a study seem a waste. Pun intended.

I need to invest in a plot of land where humans are given the opportunity to improve the soil vs hunker in a casket. Call it the, "Park of the Past".

This is kind of my thoughts as well. I truly value science and wildlife research; I’ll never know the number of days and hours I’ve devoted to each, but this study is a little out there for me and I’d guess a bit slanted given the employment of the researchers