Originally Posted by
clutch-monkey
most likely when the europeans first started colonising.
it's the same here, domesticated species only take 2-3 generations to revert back to their wild state, cats, dogs, horses, deer, camels, water buffalo, goats, rabbits, foxes have all gone feral here, hooved animals causing damage to an ecosystem that developed with the absence of hooved animals and feral cats and dogs causing the extinction of several animal species...
up near gladstone the park rangers culled 350 feral pigs within a week. they have no natural predators
so the first damage was done by men, by domesticating wild animals....
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