From: Adam 

Robert Comer wrote:
>>The "nearly extinct unless we protect it coz it can't handle the rate of
>>change in it's ecosystem" alligator?
>
>
> They were once that way, not anymore since they are protected.  And, they're
> even started talking hunting them again as they are to numerous.
>
> Hunting was the problem before.  Man'll hunt things to extinction on a
> whim...
>
When a new predator comes on the scene....adapt or die.....or become
usefull & thus protected by said predator (aphids & ants, pigs
& humans).


Adam

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