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From: alex@vax135.UUCP (Alex Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: Australian Swarms
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 09:06:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 09:06:54 1984
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A comment from a temporarily displaced Australian:

Ahhhh. Want a wonderful idea! Lynx, bobcats and hawks......

No, they wouldn't bother the domestic cattle, but we do have wallabies,
young kangas, goannas, numerous species of small lizards, wombats,
lyre birds, numerous very small marsupial mice/rats, emus and other
strange beasties, many of whom could be placed under threat by the
importation of other predators. In fact both the rabbits and the 
plague mice are imported varieties with no natural enemies (besides
Australians, and the bulk of them were imports too..) 

Actually there is a delightful cure for rabbits, an introduced disease 
called myxamatosis (sp?) that kills them off in millions, puss streaming
from their blinded eyes. Isn't mankind clever?

Alex.