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How a Soviet zoologist remade the Azerbaijan animal species population

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    Fascinating article, thanks for sharing! Always interesting to read about misguided 20th century attempts to introduce new species to new places. Seems like every country has at least a few...

    Fascinating article, thanks for sharing!

    Always interesting to read about misguided 20th century attempts to introduce new species to new places. Seems like every country has at least a few invasive species that can trace their origins back to some 1950s scientist trying to alter the natural world and failing miserably (or I guess succeeding so hard that it becomes a problem).

    Where I live there are these large networks of mosquito canals dug up in the 1980s in an attempt to control mosquito populations. It didn’t work, they soon learned, but the canals are still here.

    I wonder what sorts of experiments we’re conducting today that people 50-100 years from now will think “WTF were they thinking?”

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