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What non-native animal would you really really really like to introduce into your local habitat ? (reddthat.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Environment be damned or don't be damned. Because you like them or because you don't like your neighbors ... what animals would you like to see locally that are not there ?

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[–] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Needless to say, raccoons (in Southern Europe).

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, USSR experimented with acclimating raccoons in Belarus.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What was the results of the experiment?

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Raccoons now have a stable population in Pripyat Marshes, don't know much more.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wait they introduced the most mischievous animal in existence to the place where they're trying to contain the worst nuclear accident in history?

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They were introduced in 1960s, IIRC.

[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The USSR had 100s of nuclear reactors, yet the only meltdown was in the only nuclear plant that raccoons had access to.

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

There was also a very similar meltdown at Leningrad NPP in 1975, except there the situation was recognised earlier and the reactor was shut down before everything went to shit completely.