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Bluetongue1
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The relatinships between feral animals and crocs are not simpleand clear cut. Some of the genenral effects of ferals:
Pigs, buffalo, horses and cattle are all herbivores with hooves. Buffalo produce wallows, mostly in billabongs, which destroy gasses, sedges, waterlilies and reeds, which are important food sources for other animals. They also muddy the water and increase salt intrusion. Pigs dig up the ground around springs and rainforest patches, esp0ecially in the wet, leaving the soil exposed soil vulnerable to erosion and weed establishment. In fact pigs are believed to be the major factor in spreading the noxious weed mimosa. Horses and cattle damage water holes by leaving the soil surface broken and open to erosion, fouling water and spreading weeds.
A better way to go mght be to get historical records (ifavaialable) of what crocs were like before humans arrived in numbers.
Blue
Pigs, buffalo, horses and cattle are all herbivores with hooves. Buffalo produce wallows, mostly in billabongs, which destroy gasses, sedges, waterlilies and reeds, which are important food sources for other animals. They also muddy the water and increase salt intrusion. Pigs dig up the ground around springs and rainforest patches, esp0ecially in the wet, leaving the soil exposed soil vulnerable to erosion and weed establishment. In fact pigs are believed to be the major factor in spreading the noxious weed mimosa. Horses and cattle damage water holes by leaving the soil surface broken and open to erosion, fouling water and spreading weeds.
A better way to go mght be to get historical records (ifavaialable) of what crocs were like before humans arrived in numbers.
Blue