Talk:Culling
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[edit] Human Culling in the Scottish Highlands
This is very important that I find this out. I am trying to find out something about the stronger highland clans started running their less popular members out of the country. Apparently the idea was a social engineering attempt to keep Scotland's rural flavor. Someone told me that this sort of thing happened but I am in doubt. Can someone tell me more?
Piercetp 09:48, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Population explosion?
In an area with little food but many predators, prey animals will still have ample offspring so as to ensure survival of the next generation. Hence in some cases a cull can be counter productive by causing the population explosion it is designed to prevent.
It's not clear to me how reducing the size of a breeding population, breeding being the key word, could cause a subsequent increase in population or population growth. --24.40.139.209 02:06, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] population control
"Culling for population control is most common in wildlife management, particularly on African game farms."
This really isn't right. A farmer culls each year 1) To make money selling surplus stock and 2) Because he has to because he can only run so many animals. So it could be said all farm culling is populations control; income is made from the cull ( and to claim all culled stock is killed is blatant nonsense) and a good farmer will cull to improve his/her stock.
It really is a badly written article but I don't have the expertise to tidy up the wildlife part. Charles Esson 21:12, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Illogical
"In an area with little food but many predators, prey animals will still have ample offspring so as to ensure survival of the next generation. Hence in some cases a cull can be counter productive by causing the population explosion it is designed to prevent."
I think the argument is; the manager culls to protect the species that is being hunted but the profession manager is misquided; "the cull is not needed because if the species declines the predictor will decline anyway", i'm not sure but I think that is what is being said. Pity about man isn't it. I think a reference for this argument is needed. My own view; this and the next paragraphs should go but there needs to be something to replace them with. Charles Esson 21:38, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
