Verbreitung von Grau- und Rothörnchen in Großbritannien und Irland
Von AnonymousTimewaster
Verbreitung von Grau- und Rothörnchen in Großbritannien und Irland
Von AnonymousTimewaster
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The Great Replacement
Don’t think I’ve ever seen a red squirrel in London (born 89)
Good to see the Isle of Whtie keeping their reds
Natural selection before your eyes. Red squirrels are going extinct in the British isles, giving way to the gray squirrels.
Why?
Red squirrels hide their nuts in one place, in one giant pile.
Gray squirrels hide their nuts all over the place.
When a gray squirrel finds a red squirrels stash, they steal their nuts and that red squirrel has to start over and build a new stash, in a new location, or starve over winter.
When a red squirrel finds a gray squirrel stash, they only find one nut.
Therefore, the more competitive trait is to hide the nuts everywhere (and steal the squirrels nuts who hide them in one place), leaving the red squirrels in the lurch and gray squirrels thriving.
Well looks like another example of the Irish doing a better job in the last 15 years.
Nice recovery in Ireland, weird that I haven’t heard anything about that
How did Ireland manage to basically nearly get rid of the invasive species?
Greys are being quite successfully eliminated in Scotland now. Took long enough.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodNewsUK/comments/1s42ini/red_squirrels_rise_again_as_aberdeen_begins_to/](https://www.reddit.com/r/GoodNewsUK/comments/1s42ini/red_squirrels_rise_again_as_aberdeen_begins_to/)
Even in the squirrel world, Scotland and Ireland are red-haired.
Have never seen a red squirrel in person. Just those grey fuckers everywhere
Damn I thought we were making progress
I live in an area marked on the map as having none in Ireland but I saw my first one ever in a small old hazel woodland for the first time last year
Red squirrels age too
What’s the story behind grey squirrels in Ireland starting from the middle of the island?
Fuck the grey squirrels!
Total grey death
Why were there no squirrels in east Yorkshire? Hull isn’t *that* bad…
Is the lack of further reduction in the Red Squirrels range the result of a niche partition?
Looks like Ireland decided to St Patrick the problem.
Rurrrh! Bloody foreign squirrels, coming over ‚ere stealing the jobs of hardworking British squirrels!
IIRC, the greys were introduced into Ireland by some moron who brought a breeding pair to another moron as a present, and they allowed the breeding pair to escape
I lived in Dublin last year, there are still some grey squirrels there 🙂
Hebrides up there like “Get tae fuck, ye wee squirrel!”
Not true, grey squirrels everywhere in ireland
Good ole Pine Martins doing the lord’s work.
I think Craig Ferguson made a video about squirrel war years ago.
https://youtu.be/WGY5OcAcWWo?si=ad1sFJjCSSptcEAL
Weird, never seen a red squirrel in ireland before, only ever greys