Do feral species count
I was looking at my mammal list, as one does, making graphs and doing calculations when the thought hit me. What do other mammal watchers think of feral species. For example on my mammal list I include wild horse. I saw the horses in Theodore national park and would count them on my mammal list because of the circumstances. Those circumstances being: A, it has to have a range that it previously inhabited like wild horses inhabiting the U.S thousands of years ago. B, the local wildlife has to have adapted to the horses and have some form of predation example being that hyenas will pick of Namib desert horse foals. This shows that the population can be mitigated and not explode in number. Or if they are a predatory mammal they must hunt the local wildlife such as dingos. C, there can be little human intervention like the releasing of more horses or the capturing of dingos to keep as pets. The only form of human intervention should be to mitigate populations when there is no dominant predator. So here is a list of mammals that would fall into the criteria.
- Mustang
- Gorranos
- Namib Desert horse
- Dingos
- Majorca goats
- European mouflon
- Kri-Kri
I would like to know if you would add or change this list and what your lists are.
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