Gosh – I must have missed the scientific evidence that “exonerates” the feral cat! I bet he has a beaut social metaphor for Cane Toads as well?
One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry!
I used to think that to become a “Professor” one would need a modicum of discipline and rigour in one’s published work. Obviously not in Tassie. Graeme Stevens
> From: pintado@ozemail.com.au > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 10:51:55 +1000 > To: birding-aus@vicnet.net.au > Subject: [Birding-Aus] feral cats and immigration (The Age) > > To put it impolitely, this might be the biggest load of crap this side of a dysentery epidemic: > > http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/hatred-of-feral-cats-hides-a-sinister-truth-20130107-2ccqu.html > > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > ===============================
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On the one hand, Franklin seems to have cherry-picked feral cats as the focus for “intolerance”. There are hundreds of other invasive species wreaking havoc around the world that are not viewed with “pity” by the local societies.
Actually, I think a major flaw in Franklin’s thesis is the lack of empirical evidence linking a dislike of feral cats with social intolerance. Simply put, he does not cite any attitudinal research that indicates that people who want to control feral cats are more intolerant than people who want them to thrive.
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My brother just pithily suggested that when the immigrants start eating us, Professor Franklin may have a point.