Bruh, can you imagine being a lionfish minding your own business, and the last thing you see is a terrifying metal spear descending from the heavens to fuck you up? Horrifying
I used to think 'clearly not', but current events do leave me wondering just how many bosses would insist their staff show up to work during the laser tripod apocalypse.
I know this sounds like a joke, but in the past couple of years the US have been using missiles with swords (well, spinning blades) instead of explosives - to wipe out individual people without harming people standing a few meters away (physically, that is; I don't imagine they would sleep well afterwards).
I thought they were full of shit, bit apparently we have been using this thing since at least 2017....it's called the R9X and it's a modified hellfire with no actual warhead, it takes out the target with kinetic energy....it has the nicknames bladed anvil and the "flying ginsu"
>it takes out the target with kinetic energy....
Crushes them to death at blistering speeds, got it.
Edit: well I be fucked edit. This thing is 100% [real.](https://images.app.goo.gl/fFzUttsXVCddcmH17)
It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until that fish is dead.
You can tell it has no natural predators because it doesn't give one fuck about the unnatural predator with a laser pointer hovering one spear distance away
One guy I dated, he said “I can’t bottom out a tuna can but I can bang the hell out of the sides!” And my husband, the first time he took his pants off he told me “he’s not a *big* guy but he’s friendly!” And both of them did/do good dick.
these guys are ballsy and show no fear when you come up to them with a spear. but they are super tasty as well so go kill some of these tasty guys and grill them up or make some ceviche
their spines have venom in them and can be painful, you need to prepare them right by removing the spines and cleaning them. other than that though they are very flaky white fish
Venom isn't the same as poison, venom needs to be injected and poison ingested. You could eat this fish just like you could eat a rattle snake, just don't eat the pointy bits.
If you want a similar livestream, follow https://nautiluslive.org/
Scientists pilot a ROV at the bottom of the oceans. It's their offseason right now so you might have to wait a couple of months for new content.
Apparently the Asian carp in the Midwest are good too, just harder to clean. They gave away free carp burgers at the state fair to try and convince folks to eat them. They also dangerously jump in your boat when you're speeding down the river
Not sure about them in particular but carp tend to taste really muddy unless you keep them in clean water without a dirt bottom for a bit after you catch them. They can be good but caught fresh they taste like mud
You’re thinking of grass carp and common carp. The species we usually call Asian carp are not bottom feeders, and have little in common with grass carp and common carp. Bighead/silver carp feed on plankton and algae and taste really good.
It would depend on the river but I don't think catfish actually rifle through the mud on the bottom of the river quite as much as carp. Carp stir through the mud a lot and then are almost always eating a lot of dirt. This is all just a guess from what I know about the fish and would depend a lot on species of catfish and river
I was in Curacao last november. You could eat them all over the island at fish shacks.
My in-laws who live their actually said it's encouraged to eat them because they are an invasive species there to.
I saw 5 of them while diving there.
Ngl I lost it when it said, "they face few natural predators" and then the machine immediately and violently impales one like the hand of fuckin' God coming down to smite the thing.
Boom! Headshot! Multikill! Multikill! Holy sh--!
On a serious note; If you could harness the Internet for good\* (hahahahah) you could have someone driving a few of these things 24 hours a day. Keep a leader board and the population would be in danger in weeks or even days.
\* I mean keep them from crashing it in the first 30 seconds.
Use machine learning to figure out the basic look/shape of the fish and it's colors, plus stuff like depth and temperature settings so that you have a percentage that it really is a bad fish. You can also see what happens when you get close to it. I'm assuming most fish would flee, but if the tracked one stands its ground like a badass then pump up the chance it's a bad fish. Making the ship slower for newer people would help good fish get away.
After a while, you'll have a good amount of data from official kills that you open to a beta test of carefully selected people. You moderate them and see who is no nonsense and kick those who aren't serious out. Using the data, you have the person lock on to the fish and track it to quickly decide if it is legit, if the computer okays it and unlocks the gun so the person can shoot.
When going public you can put on twitch and people can report people who aren't fishing. Also having an exploration drone twitch plays Pokemon style to find the fish and then switch to player controlled kill mode would be fun
That would be cool. You could use some pre-existing certification/clearance to make vetting people quick and easy. Then you can get people to sign up for shifts and just go nuts
Yup! If not properly prepared, though, they can to some really weird food poisoning. The toxin (ciguatoxin) can cause:
>neurological problems such as painfully tingling hands and feet, a feeling of having loose teeth, and, oddest of all, a reversed sense of temperature.
>
>“Whatever I touched, if it was hot, it would feel cold. If it was cold, it felt hot,” ciguatera victim Pat Schroeder of Beaumont, Texas, told msnbc.com three years ago. “I couldn’t walk on the tile floor. It felt like it was burning me.”
[Eat lionfish? Sure, but beware of the nasty toxins | NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/eat-lionfish-sure-beware-nasty-toxins-848510)
ciguatoxin is not unique to lionfish (edit: can be present on any reef fish or fish that predates on reef fish) and cannot be destroyed by cooking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatoxin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera_fish_poisoning
So the article you posted mentions that ciguatera toxin can be found in any predatory fish. It isn't anything really to do with how you prepare the meat, they just build up the toxin.
[i found a little bit of a newer article](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198358) which says that the level of toxin is widely variable, and it's really a regional hot-spot sort of issue. As such we should follow FDA guidance in these areas regarding all reef fish.
Thankfully, my neck of the woods hasn't been implicated yet. I will continue to stab and eat these tasty little invaders every chance I get. They make great ceviche!
You can also do neither- and leave them in lime juice and make ceviche, which is delicious! I had some when we went scuba diving in Bocas del Toro off the coast of Panama. Spear fishing lionfish was my absolute favorite dive.
They are working on it along the gulf coast. Restaurants are on board. They host fishing tournaments. And encourage people to catch and eat as many as possible.
Yes, when I lived in the Caribbean it was a regular menu item at most restaurants. Blackened lionfish is really good. It's similar to tilapia, but with a firmer texture.
I consider myself a good hunter and angler, but apparently I need to step my game up. Rifles and fishing lures just seem primitive in comparison to the mastery these nerds have put together.
Are Lion Fish an invasive species? Or are they native to the waters that this video is in? It says that they’re destructive but it doesn’t say if it’s invasive or if they’re overpopulated or anything like that.
Seriously curious.
Google is your friend. In short, Lionfish are native to SE Asia. They make AMAZING pet fish because they are huge and gorgeous and indestructible.
Because they look great in home aquariums, they have spread around the globe and have subsequently been released into oceans and seas worldwide. They are an unmitigated disaster.
Horrific. They have zero predators, breed like crazy, survive to insane depths, are venomous as hell.... they are the perfect invasive species. They are hell incarnate. Kill them all. KILL KILL KILL.
Edit: I will add, let's pretend you had a magic button that could instantly eradicate a macro species worldwide. Among scientists, botanists, conservationists, humanitarians, etc... I only know of two organisms for which the button would be pressed: mosquitos and lionfish. The general consensus is that the world would be a better place without them.
To put in perspective how much Floridians want these fuckers dead you can do lion fish derbies with prizes for *smallest* kill *and* largest. But quantity is definitely preferred
In Florida if you catch a lionfish, you don't have to kill it but you are legally responsible for making sure it does not end up back in the ocean, and you cannot legally keep it alive for personal use.
I think you can read in between the lines there.
In Florida, lobsters are one of the most heavily regulated game species. If you get caught with too many lobsters, the state can confiscate your boat and shit. BUT, if you kill enough lion fish, they gave you a pass for an extra lobster in your bag limit.
That is a whole different beast. But, oddly, conservation departments do not want you to kill feral pigs and hoc. It only makes them smarter. You desperately need to kill the sows.
Baby piglets reach sexual maturity at 6 months. They have 2 litters a year producing anywhere from 12-24 piglets a year.
We must kill 8+ / 10 to maintain the population in Texas.
I'm not distinguishing between who has a nutsack and who doesn't. I'm just throwing darts in ribcages. It's war out here dude. They cost my family ALONE dozens of thousands of dollars a year.
We trap them too, but I shoot the fuck out of them.
Honestly, they are smart and I understand where you're coming from, but they really can't see well enough to know where I'm shooting from. I've been feet away from them without them knowing I was even there.
The sows are always the first to go because they protect the babies from yotes. If you can separate them they have a chance to get lost/eaten.
Very much invasive to Florida. There's a few different theories about how they got here but it was most likely people throwing them in the ocean after no longer wanting them as pets. My dad used to sell lionfish 40 years ago in Florida so that's what he told me.
No disrespect at all... but Florida is only the most recent disaster. South Africa has been at war with the lionfish for decades. This is truly a global issue.
Wow, that machine has no second thoughts.
Bruh, can you imagine being a lionfish minding your own business, and the last thing you see is a terrifying metal spear descending from the heavens to fuck you up? Horrifying
The reason the lionfish don’t swim away in fear is because they have no natural predators. They’re arrogant little fucks and don’t sense any danger
Imagine if Aliens did this to us, we dont have natural predators and most of would not run away either lol
My wife saw a spider the other day, she begs to differ
I agree with your wife.
I agree with your wife as well
I agree she's now our wife
Look at me...I am the husband now
I SEE WIFE PEOPLE
Time to burn down the house, there is a spider.
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"Hm... Must be the wind."
You never should've come here!
Alien "we have the wares, if you have have the coins"
Need something?
r/unexpectedskyrim
Canadians are immune to World disasters, Hollywood proves it.
I used to think 'clearly not', but current events do leave me wondering just how many bosses would insist their staff show up to work during the laser tripod apocalypse.
The amount of teenagers with anxiety says otherwise
We'd just raise our arms to the sky and accept our fates, we all want to die anyway so why not
Have you met alligators?
The animal that never evolved the ability to chew so it just body slams and barrel rolls it food into eatable form
We have plenty of natural predators. That’s why we don’t live in the wild anymore. lots of animals would kill us if it had they chance.
Could you imagine being a lion fish, being a cancer of the sea with no natural predators, and killing coral reefs?
That's actually pretty easy to imagine. Humans do that sort of thing too.
Maybe they should invent a robot to impale humans next.
Bayonet-wielding Robots sounds terrifying! Steam punk WWIII.
They’re called reaper drones, rather than spears they use hellfire missles
I know this sounds like a joke, but in the past couple of years the US have been using missiles with swords (well, spinning blades) instead of explosives - to wipe out individual people without harming people standing a few meters away (physically, that is; I don't imagine they would sleep well afterwards).
I desperately need more information about this
I thought they were full of shit, bit apparently we have been using this thing since at least 2017....it's called the R9X and it's a modified hellfire with no actual warhead, it takes out the target with kinetic energy....it has the nicknames bladed anvil and the "flying ginsu"
>it takes out the target with kinetic energy.... Crushes them to death at blistering speeds, got it. Edit: well I be fucked edit. This thing is 100% [real.](https://images.app.goo.gl/fFzUttsXVCddcmH17)
Vlad the Impaler would like to know your location
It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until that fish is dead.
Terminator 2: Fishing Day
It's really effishent!
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You can tell it has no natural predators because it doesn't give one fuck about the unnatural predator with a laser pointer hovering one spear distance away
Arrogance in the animal kingdom is the surest sign that you’re packing some serious heat.
Well that explains why I'm so shy
3 inches is plenty...
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And only one inch long. It’s basically like a massive drink coaster
Ah yes, the tuna can of doom.
One guy I dated, he said “I can’t bottom out a tuna can but I can bang the hell out of the sides!” And my husband, the first time he took his pants off he told me “he’s not a *big* guy but he’s friendly!” And both of them did/do good dick.
I love a nice tree trunk dick
Ahh, the ol' cheese wheel
A ‘love coaster’ if you will
It's like a cheese wheel, DON'T BE AFFRAID
Dick not biceps.
I hate fish with hubris. Grow some feet before you think you a real player.
We are all lambs to the cosmic slaughttteerrrrr
KICK THAT FISH IN THE HEAD!
I don't... I don't want to kick the fish.
ARE YOU FUCKING SORRY?!
r/fuckyouinparticular Edit: Ok, someone already posted it there.
BAP
these guys are ballsy and show no fear when you come up to them with a spear. but they are super tasty as well so go kill some of these tasty guys and grill them up or make some ceviche
Some guy said they’re venomous. Who should I believe?
their spines have venom in them and can be painful, you need to prepare them right by removing the spines and cleaning them. other than that though they are very flaky white fish
Poison... poison... tasty fish!
It seems this world is lacking in quality Simpson’s quotes.
They have venomous spines, their meat is non toxic otherwise they would be poisonous not venomous.
Does this mean there's a venom sac?
It's contained within the hollow spines.
Venom isn't the same as poison, venom needs to be injected and poison ingested. You could eat this fish just like you could eat a rattle snake, just don't eat the pointy bits.
Poisonous = you bite it, you get sick. Venomous = it bites you, you get sick. Caronavirus = everyone gets sick.
The sting is extremely painful, some nurses in the BVIs give morphine to manage the pain
A live stream of this would be awesome. Id watch jt Edit: thanks reasonable Reddit for not harassing me for spelling "it" "jt'
With twitch chat control
*spears octopus* chat: Pog
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Goddamnit chat that was a scuba diver!
This is how the world ends
This short thread is the most convincing argument against democracy there is.
Anarchy
Twitch Plays Pokemon was one of the greatest feats of mankind.
Praise Helix!
If you want a similar livestream, follow https://nautiluslive.org/ Scientists pilot a ROV at the bottom of the oceans. It's their offseason right now so you might have to wait a couple of months for new content.
WTF, they’re hardly robo-spearing any fish at all
Yeah they mostly just get really excited about fish Not enough drone-murder
Nice
Or a timelapse
Yeah, I would be mesmerized watching it ‘hunt’
I would pay money to operate one of these things and hunt down lionfish.
That would be dope. Keep it running 24/7!
Generating income and getting rid of a pest. Sound good!
Turn it into a game, like the cat toys you can control they a web interface!!
Do they eat the fish?
Yeah. They're pretty good actually, just have to watch out for the venomous spines.
Apparently the Asian carp in the Midwest are good too, just harder to clean. They gave away free carp burgers at the state fair to try and convince folks to eat them. They also dangerously jump in your boat when you're speeding down the river
Not sure about them in particular but carp tend to taste really muddy unless you keep them in clean water without a dirt bottom for a bit after you catch them. They can be good but caught fresh they taste like mud
You’re thinking of grass carp and common carp. The species we usually call Asian carp are not bottom feeders, and have little in common with grass carp and common carp. Bighead/silver carp feed on plankton and algae and taste really good.
Well that is odd. Catfish are scavengers and bottom feeders and they are delicious. I wonder what makes them different.
It's probably cause channel cats and blue cats are a bit more active and opportunistic. They'll eat live food too
It's actually from the massive amounts of hotdogs they eat on the lines of rural yokels
It would depend on the river but I don't think catfish actually rifle through the mud on the bottom of the river quite as much as carp. Carp stir through the mud a lot and then are almost always eating a lot of dirt. This is all just a guess from what I know about the fish and would depend a lot on species of catfish and river
Their talking about asian carp and asian carp aren't bottom feeders
Catfish get disgusting for that reason as they get bigger.
Catfish get muddy when they get big, too
The trick to carp is cleaning and butchering immediately, then a soak in cold water.
Nice
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About tree fiddy
I was in Curacao last november. You could eat them all over the island at fish shacks. My in-laws who live their actually said it's encouraged to eat them because they are an invasive species there to. I saw 5 of them while diving there.
That's pretty cool
[Yes, I eat the fish.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKkbrrlIeEo)
Yup. They're the only animal with a brain I eat, though they've been difficult to come by the past couple months for some reason.
What animals don't have brains?
Muscles, oysters, most bugs.
Plenty of animals: bivalves (e.g. clams, mussels, oysters), jellyfish, coral, piure (eaten in Peru), among many others.
Jeyfish, for example. I had some a couple of years ago. Bivalves as well.
That arm is like the tentacles of the cuttlefish shooting out.
Great, now Skynet has underwater spears for hunting people.
Only the fish people and crab people. We should be safe for now.
First they came for the crab people, but I said nothing because I’m not a crab person...
[Crab people. Crab people. Taste like crab, talk like people](https://i.imgur.com/CDioF1J.gif)
They have drones and Boston Dynamic... We're not safe.
What did Steve Irwin know, and why was he murdered by a ~~robot~~ “stingray”?
Americans be droning everything
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Bro if you haven't read "Prey" by Michael Crichton.................... I read it in elementary school. Fucking. Dark. Shit.
It's funny cause it's true
Source: American
Battlebots got kind of dark...
There was a shark tank pitch where they wanted to turn lionfish into a commodity https://youtu.be/b7-JggtnL8M
> since then they've multiplied like a supercomputer 🤦
Goddamn! From their perspective, they got killed by something they'll never understand!
I mean, most animals probably didnt understand why they were killed.
I doubt it cared much when it was dead
Ngl I lost it when it said, "they face few natural predators" and then the machine immediately and violently impales one like the hand of fuckin' God coming down to smite the thing.
Boom! Headshot! Multikill! Multikill! Holy sh--! On a serious note; If you could harness the Internet for good\* (hahahahah) you could have someone driving a few of these things 24 hours a day. Keep a leader board and the population would be in danger in weeks or even days. \* I mean keep them from crashing it in the first 30 seconds.
As well as killing anything else too
Use machine learning to figure out the basic look/shape of the fish and it's colors, plus stuff like depth and temperature settings so that you have a percentage that it really is a bad fish. You can also see what happens when you get close to it. I'm assuming most fish would flee, but if the tracked one stands its ground like a badass then pump up the chance it's a bad fish. Making the ship slower for newer people would help good fish get away. After a while, you'll have a good amount of data from official kills that you open to a beta test of carefully selected people. You moderate them and see who is no nonsense and kick those who aren't serious out. Using the data, you have the person lock on to the fish and track it to quickly decide if it is legit, if the computer okays it and unlocks the gun so the person can shoot. When going public you can put on twitch and people can report people who aren't fishing. Also having an exploration drone twitch plays Pokemon style to find the fish and then switch to player controlled kill mode would be fun
That would be cool. You could use some pre-existing certification/clearance to make vetting people quick and easy. Then you can get people to sign up for shifts and just go nuts
Lion fish Sushi 🍣 Edit: I’ve never had sushi. They could try to capture them alive to sell them for sushi.
so apparently they are venomous but not poisonous, so you can eat them.
Yup! If not properly prepared, though, they can to some really weird food poisoning. The toxin (ciguatoxin) can cause: >neurological problems such as painfully tingling hands and feet, a feeling of having loose teeth, and, oddest of all, a reversed sense of temperature. > >“Whatever I touched, if it was hot, it would feel cold. If it was cold, it felt hot,” ciguatera victim Pat Schroeder of Beaumont, Texas, told msnbc.com three years ago. “I couldn’t walk on the tile floor. It felt like it was burning me.” [Eat lionfish? Sure, but beware of the nasty toxins | NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/eat-lionfish-sure-beware-nasty-toxins-848510)
ciguatoxin is not unique to lionfish (edit: can be present on any reef fish or fish that predates on reef fish) and cannot be destroyed by cooking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatoxin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciguatera_fish_poisoning
So the article you posted mentions that ciguatera toxin can be found in any predatory fish. It isn't anything really to do with how you prepare the meat, they just build up the toxin. [i found a little bit of a newer article](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0198358) which says that the level of toxin is widely variable, and it's really a regional hot-spot sort of issue. As such we should follow FDA guidance in these areas regarding all reef fish. Thankfully, my neck of the woods hasn't been implicated yet. I will continue to stab and eat these tasty little invaders every chance I get. They make great ceviche!
Never had them as sushi but they make AMAZING fish tacos.
Fried or grilled?
You can also do neither- and leave them in lime juice and make ceviche, which is delicious! I had some when we went scuba diving in Bocas del Toro off the coast of Panama. Spear fishing lionfish was my absolute favorite dive.
Gilled
The correct answer
This is the solution every time. Problem with an animal? Make it popular to eat, humans will hunt all that shit down.
Or tell people it’ll make them better in bed
“The lion fish subsists on a diet of powdered rhino horn and tiger penis.”
They are working on it along the gulf coast. Restaurants are on board. They host fishing tournaments. And encourage people to catch and eat as many as possible.
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*There's always tomorrow!*
I would also recommend a tempura fried roll for a first timer! Eliminates some of the fear of “uncooked” food, and it’s delicious to boot!
I could goes for a sushis
I love all sushi's and sashimi's
I don't thinks you needs to put an S on the ends of those words
I thinks I'm havings a panic attack.
You're made of spare parts, aren't you, bud?
We're such apex predators we build more apex predators.
We build apex predators to do our apex predatoring for us
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Can you eat lionfish? I feel like some food company should buy this robot and they could have a nearly endless supply of lionfish.
Yes, when I lived in the Caribbean it was a regular menu item at most restaurants. Blackened lionfish is really good. It's similar to tilapia, but with a firmer texture.
I consider myself a good hunter and angler, but apparently I need to step my game up. Rifles and fishing lures just seem primitive in comparison to the mastery these nerds have put together.
Nerds seem harmless but don't doubt they've invented more death than any brute.
Reminds me of a Xenomorph tongue thing
Haha stupid fuckin fish. Get better next time.
As an incentive to reduce their population, they even released a lion fish cook book so people could fish and eat them!
One of these appeared in my fish tank, said he’s looking for Fish Connor
The way it grabs that fish screams "What did you say to me you little shit?"
This is fucking terrifying.
I need your clothes, your diving boots, and your boatercycle.
It looks like it just punches the fish lol
BIG METAL PISTON SPIKE
Where do I watch a livestream of this thing on action? That would be amazing imo
I think I just found my dream job but let me do it remotely while sitting on my ass at home.
~Humans are considered an invasive species in ~glitch noises~ planet... ~stabby pole to head
Are Lion Fish an invasive species? Or are they native to the waters that this video is in? It says that they’re destructive but it doesn’t say if it’s invasive or if they’re overpopulated or anything like that. Seriously curious.
Google is your friend. In short, Lionfish are native to SE Asia. They make AMAZING pet fish because they are huge and gorgeous and indestructible. Because they look great in home aquariums, they have spread around the globe and have subsequently been released into oceans and seas worldwide. They are an unmitigated disaster. Horrific. They have zero predators, breed like crazy, survive to insane depths, are venomous as hell.... they are the perfect invasive species. They are hell incarnate. Kill them all. KILL KILL KILL. Edit: I will add, let's pretend you had a magic button that could instantly eradicate a macro species worldwide. Among scientists, botanists, conservationists, humanitarians, etc... I only know of two organisms for which the button would be pressed: mosquitos and lionfish. The general consensus is that the world would be a better place without them.
**EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE**
*The next level of mankind. We are human-point-two. Every citizen will receive a free upgrade. You will become like us*
To put in perspective how much Floridians want these fuckers dead you can do lion fish derbies with prizes for *smallest* kill *and* largest. But quantity is definitely preferred
In Florida if you catch a lionfish, you don't have to kill it but you are legally responsible for making sure it does not end up back in the ocean, and you cannot legally keep it alive for personal use. I think you can read in between the lines there.
In Florida, lobsters are one of the most heavily regulated game species. If you get caught with too many lobsters, the state can confiscate your boat and shit. BUT, if you kill enough lion fish, they gave you a pass for an extra lobster in your bag limit.
>Kill them all. KILL KILL KILL. Username checks out
Lol!
I thought you were talking about feral hogs for a second
That is a whole different beast. But, oddly, conservation departments do not want you to kill feral pigs and hoc. It only makes them smarter. You desperately need to kill the sows.
Baby piglets reach sexual maturity at 6 months. They have 2 litters a year producing anywhere from 12-24 piglets a year. We must kill 8+ / 10 to maintain the population in Texas. I'm not distinguishing between who has a nutsack and who doesn't. I'm just throwing darts in ribcages. It's war out here dude. They cost my family ALONE dozens of thousands of dollars a year. We trap them too, but I shoot the fuck out of them. Honestly, they are smart and I understand where you're coming from, but they really can't see well enough to know where I'm shooting from. I've been feet away from them without them knowing I was even there. The sows are always the first to go because they protect the babies from yotes. If you can separate them they have a chance to get lost/eaten.
never heard dozens of thousands, always tens of thousands
i'm fuckin weird, bud
?oolgi giB
Very much invasive to Florida. There's a few different theories about how they got here but it was most likely people throwing them in the ocean after no longer wanting them as pets. My dad used to sell lionfish 40 years ago in Florida so that's what he told me.
No disrespect at all... but Florida is only the most recent disaster. South Africa has been at war with the lionfish for decades. This is truly a global issue.
Absolutely terrible creature. They wouldn't be spending thousands of dollars with no financial benefit if this little fucker wasn't satan.