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  Re: [aroid-l] Woodchuck problem
From: "Peter Boyce" <peterboyce at myjaring.net> on 2004.07.25 at 22:09:36(11813)
Julius' point is a VERY salient one; depending on where you garden in the world someone's treasured pet can be a major pest.

Here in Sarawak monkeys (especially the cute silver leaf monkey which in former less-enlightened times was the one sold in pet shops in Europe and the US) are a major pest of orchards; a small group will devastate an orchard of fruit eating what they can and ruining the remainder by biting the fruit to see if it's ripe.

At the ultimate extreme, at least two national parks in Thailand have had to go to the astronomical expense of installing anti-elephant fences to protect their nursery plantations from roaming herbs (elephant populations in Thailand ore increasing at teh same time the forests are shrinking - a bad combination).

Mercifully elephants aren't known to burrow and haven't yet figured that they could climb over the barrier if they had a step ladder....

Pete

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