Its all a bunch of huey(pooooo) All those words are made by man. They are invented to suit his needs. Sometimes words are made to define and comunicate something to other men. Sometimes they are just labels.

The problem is, they are or can be(depends on how off they are)totally meaningless. Meaningless to the animals or enviornment, or nature in general. Nature or its denizens does not care what you call its enviornments, nor does it care what you call the habitats humans modify. It doesn't care if you call, out of place animals, feral or invasives. It doesn't care if a habitat is called generalized or specialized. All it cares about is bio-mass, nature provides a constantly changing supply of habitats for its bio-mass to exsist in.

Man comes along and changes that. Then expects of same life forms that were there before man changed it, to be there after he completely changed it. Thats fairly ignorant of man to expect.

In fact, I don't believe man or WISH&WILDLIFE or academics, really expect that, I think if all a bunch of huey made up to fool the public, not fool nature.

So man makes up words, makes up definitions, and then thinks or expects they will apply to nature, they don't. A simple comparison is, people here put a box in a cage and put some stuff in the box and call it a next box. How naive is that? its just a box with stuff in it. A dirt box, if your will or a leaflitter box or a carefree box. To be a nest box, or nesting area, it has to have a history. That history is, it needs to be nested in to be a nest box. So man, mucks up something, then calls it something, then expects it to be what he called it, how funny is that?

Whats even funnier is, he will now change is words and definitions and expectations to something else(redefine). Althought history has shown man will be wrong again, as he was all the other times.

I took some biology and worked in biology all of my life. So I know, man already understands the problem. He understood it long ago, in order to keep a set of species, you need to preserve the enviorment they occur in, Man knows that. If you muck with any part of that enviornment, it will change the makeup of that enviornment. Man knows this, and knew it for a long time. It does not matter what you call a species, specialized or general, or if they are feral or invasive. Those are meaningless words. Made destorys the enviornment and keeps destroying the enviornment. So he should be darn happy there are any animals that will life in his new world. He should not care if they are invasive or feral or specialized or generalists. He will be unlucky if anything lives.

IF man keeps up his mucking around, man will be begging for anything bigger then a pathogen to life in his world. Cheers.

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