That's a stoat. :)

@@HenrythePaleoGuy Ooopsie, but just as good.

The rodents or the tourists?

@@beneficent2557 god, i wish there were more tourist natural predators

What a wonderful experience.

@@robertfletcher3421 Yes, it was quite an enchanting development. I was only sat still in a shady glen, listening to my afar off Doggies. Then were coming to me, wee-bitty, deliberate steppings; and things developed as above described. Most auspicious; most enchanting.

And a lot more to come!

Will be done eventually! :D

I view it as an indication that the decline of native species cannot always be solely the result of introduced predators. Sometimes it is, but other times there must be other factors at work.

@@alexanderstone9463 that is very true

My pet theory is that the extinctions caused by the Maori through the local ecosystem out of whack. And that it was only starting to reach some sort of equilibrium when the Europeans came and threw it even more out of whack. To this day it is still in a state of flux. This is significant because it raises question about the proper way to restore New Zealand’s ecosystem. Do you try to do what was done on offshore islands? Or do you merely attempt to get the ecosystem back to what it was in the pre-European era, when there were rodents (and significantly more trees) but nothing else? Keep in mind that there is a price difference between these two options. The latter would be significantly cheaper, and by “significantly cheaper” I mean at least several trillion US dollars cheaper (and no that’s not a typo). The potential for a rodent problem resulting from this latter strategy would likely be less significant than one might think due to native predators like the Weka.

There's zero chance trillions are spent on New Zealand by the U.S Our annual budget for the entire country of the U.S is 3 trillion dollars with about 22 trillion in debt thanks to the old dementia ridden corrupt crooked moron known as Joe Biden. It is possible billions are spent in financial aid. BTW, there were no rodents native to Aeotora (NZ). The Polynesian rat.came with the Maori & Maiori when they arrived. NZ had only bird species and 2 types of Bat's that were endemic, 1 of which has been extinct since the 20th century. But everything else you Stated was corrupt and logical. 👍

Don't worry, these guys have a good population, they are even hunted and eaten.. I'd bet the nz government would never let people keep them as pets/livestock on topnof that

Domestication necesary implies erasing an animals genetic diversity, plus making them pasive, docile, stupid and lazy. This makes very dificult for them to return to the wild, so they become living furniture, and if they manage somehow to go feral, they would negatively afect surviving wild populations. On top of that pet trade encourages animal abuse and ilegal animal trade. Preserving a species outside of its habitat is as ridiculous as preserving ramdom words from a book. Let nature just be, not everything in life has to be profitable.

Sure have! They're cool little birds. :)

Sure are! Just as fast-striking as one!

Sure are!

Little more gamey but yeah, pretty similar