Matt... If you're going to "biologically kill" either sex (which you are in
effect doing when you remove an animal from a wild population, no matter your
purpose), it works out nicely that it'd be preferable to take the males
instead of the females. A single male can fill in for the 10 or so you
remove.
Like my Foundations of Ecology prof has said, perhaps too many times:
"Males are only worthwhile in a cohort for a couple seconds and a microgram of
protein." :)
Todd
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From: owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org on behalf of Christopher Scharpf
Sent: Sun 12/11/2005 7:15 PM
To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- OT: Sales of Males
> I'm not sure it's a devolution, nor has the core reason for keeping fish
> changed. Who didn't start keeping fish because they were pretty and they
> liked to look-in-their "display"?
Bob Goldstein say there are 2 type of aquarium hobbyists: fishkeepers and
aquarists. Fishkeepers keep fish because fish and fish tanks are beautiful,
whereas aquarists breed fish and raise the eggs/fry.
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