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In this day and age I’m always amazed and heartened to hear that there is enough wildlife left to be such a problem like this.
Meanwhile in Afghanistan...
You mean Antelopes can jump that high?
Advanced technology upgrade!
Climate change is changing the migration patterns of wildlife
Is that a million antelopes, or a single 1 metre long, very strong amtelope?
Were the antelopes wearing Ukraine flags?
With how things are going, Putin’s likely not going to see the end of his war.
Imagine this being one of your closing memories to a war you said would be done in 3 weeks.
three days, he said he'd take Kyiv in 72 hours.
And once again I find myself not knowing anything about Russia's ecosystems. As the largest country on earth it should have an astonishing variety of nature, similar to the US.
But TV and cinema have taught me that Russia is grey everywhere with some grass and small frail trees scattered about and sometimes coniferous forests and snow.
As the largest country on earth it should have an astonishing variety of nature, similar to the US.
Russia is at a much higher latitude, which limits things. It's mostly taiga and tundra, with the Great Steppe in the south. No deserts like the American Midwest or rain forests like the Pacific Northwest.
It's peppered into the Planet earth series and I believe Our Planet as well. The Taiga in Russia is a massive and beautiful, untouched ecosystem.
Russia by and large doesn't give a shit about its nature as long as it's huge and can be exploited so it's not like they're producing many documentaries etc. about it.
This is a cool project, though: Re-creating megafauna habitat, turning tundra into steppe. And in true Russian fashion, in lieu of living mammoths running over trees they used a tank.
I know a few tricks that might help with the problem, but why share them with Russia?
Surely antelopes roam in herds, not swarms? They're not bees.
I think a swarm of antelopes sounds incredibly terrifying:
Just a mass hooves, fur, and antlers; can't tell where one ends and the next begins; roaming across the land, leaving only destruction in its wake...
the rumbling kicks in
This whole thread is just so Lemmy it makes me laugh.
"swarm" here is a verb, not a noun. As in, "to swarm".
"The sappers exploded their charges under the city walls, and the invader's troops swarmed in through the gap."
But as used in the headline, "...antelope swarm destroys.." the verb is "destroys," not "swarm."
No, it’s pretty obviously being used as a noun here.
I would understand that "swarm" here is used as a noun, destroy is the verb. The verb uses the third-person singular form (destroys) therefore the subject can't be "1 million antelopes" (plural), but should be singular, like "one swarm of antelopes".
can 1 million be considered a herd? a swarm of locusts can turn intoa plague. it can also refer to plague of field mice, or rabbits.
Okay, "swarming herds of antelopes" would satisfy me. Or "plague of a million antelopes."
Maybe it's just me, I feel like swarming is something you do with lots of legs and maybe some wings. And the ickiness of small bodies moving in waves, chittering and buzzing.
Thundering hooves and sharp horns feels like a wholly different terror.
Ants swarm, though.
Do they elope?
Only if they are in love, from different colonies, and if the queen of the girl-ants colony forbids her from seeing him.
Dear Russia,
You're fucked.
Sincerely,
Australia.
Just in case they're not, send them some emus.