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RE: Breeding weight for zonata

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Posted by: Rick Staub at Mon Apr 20 16:53:14 2009  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rick Staub ]  
   

No doubt natural selection is at work, but certainly millions of years of skunks, racoons, fox, and other critters attempting to extract and eat them far exceeds the selection from the past 30 years by humans across a fraction of their total range. "Relentlessly" is an exaggeration when you examine the total acreage that they inhabit and it accessibility.


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>>It is natural selection at work here. L. zonata has been collected so relentlessly that only those that stay way back in the most inaccessible crevices can continue to stay in the wild. The less "wily" ones are spending their lives inside cages. LOL.
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