We were watching an item on Countryfile on Sunday evening about the culling of deer on a large, Scottish estate. The gamekeeper said that they have to cull the deer to prevent them damaging the ecology, so they kill off the old and ill ones. They don't like doing it, apparently, but it's necessary.
It strikes me that if you want to keep a population under control, killing off the ill and sick is not the best way of maintaining a sustainable population. Surely it would be better to cull a smaller number of the highly reproductive members of the herd, rather than those who are probably incapable of reproduction due to being at a natural disadvantage in the first place. Unless of course, you're practising a bit of eugenics with the aim of creating a deer Master Race....
When you think about it, the Chinese government didn't stem the Chinese population growth by topping everyone over 60, but by the introduction of the Two Child and One Child policies between 1979 and 2015.
When you think about it, the Chinese government didn't stem the Chinese population growth by topping everyone over 60, but by the introduction of the Two Child and One Child policies between 1979 and 2015.
Where is my thinking wrong?
No-one has guessed yesterday's conundrum correctly yet....
1 comment:
Wouldn't be a second wheel and a frame would it?
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