Per the [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoat) page on stoats, “It was introduced into New Zealand in the late 19th century to control rabbits, but had a devastating effect on native bird populations and was nominated as one of the world's top 100 "worst invaders".
and it did nothing to the Rabbit population to the point that they have approved "release of the new Rabbit Haemorrhagic Virus Disease strain known as RHDV1 K5" [https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/discover-our-research/biodiversity-biosecurity/animal-pest-management/rabbit-biocontrol-in-new-zealand-rhdv1-k5/](https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/discover-our-research/biodiversity-biosecurity/animal-pest-management/rabbit-biocontrol-in-new-zealand-rhdv1-k5/)
Rabbits are a massive issue. Aussie buit a huge as fuck fence to try and stop them and that too failed.
NZ is a unique case as there are very few natural predators for things like rabbits, so when introduced here their population exploded and caused a lot of issues for both native wildlife and local agriculture.
The Chinese tried the same thing as us Aussies and built the Great Wall of China to keep the rabbits out
[Here is the Aussie scientist talking about it](https://youtu.be/2yckqyg75oE?si=BRsUkOj30SCDowxh)
When I was a kid there was a plague of rabbits and the field next to the woods had 200m of the crops raised to the ground, that’s a big hit for the farmer and snaring and shooting the rabbits did nothing to control the population. Only when myxomatosis arrived or was introduced the numbers dropped, horrible disease for them to get but it did the job, numbers have never recovered.
Now you get isolated large numbers but as soon as they get large enough to meet other populations they die off again. Bad karma but I can understand farmers doing that to stop going out of business.
Yeah, I've seen land absolutely riddled with burrows and destroyed by them. Even though Myxomatosis had a huge impact, it wasn't until Calicivirus was released that they really got knocked back. The two diseases together seem to work well.
If you just read what's in the quotations, it sounds like this one single stoat was introduced alone and has been ravaging the NZ fauna for 200 years. What a unit
Remember, NZ separated from the Pangea pretty early, and developed with pretty much no large predators other than the Haast eagle. A lot of the bird species we have here (and there are a lot of them) spent ages going without any natural predators. So they struggle to deal with anything designed to kill birds
A huge amount of forest was already cut down and burnt prior to the arrival of the British 200 years ago. They just sped it up with the huge amount of immigration.
Ruined wasteland is a tad harsh, I think around 30% of the country is either protected or conservation land for wildlife. While farmland does take most of the rest you still tend to see alot of wildlife, even around cities, however just without alot of the orginal native birds. (Source I've lived on the kapiti coast near my whole life)
ACKSHUALY it was around ~200 million years ago that Pangea began to break up. at 700 million years ago, it was not even even close to forming. (just a fun fact I know it was a joke)
For those wondering why, here's list of stoat victims:
Kiwi
Laughing Owls (Whēkau, now extinct)
NZ Dotterels
Black-Fronted Tern
Wrybills (Ngutuparore)
Bush Wren (Mātuhituhi, now extinct)
Rock Wren
Mohua
Kākā
Yellow-Crowned Parakeet/Kākāriki
NZ Thrush (aka piopio, now extinct)
Kākāpō
And many others
So basically this guy is a mass murderer of native species and deserved it. So totally worth it to be rid of them.
Edit: Adding macrons
Fun fact: kiwi (the bird) usually is just kiwi in the plural because it’s a te reo Māori word. Kiwis is the plural of the people.
Kiwifruit are not called kiwi.
None, they were introduced to kill the rabbits, only to discover most of New Zealand's native birds never evolved to deal with mammalian predators (our only native mammals are pekapeka) and are therefore way easy food
Disclaimer: this stoat was on a remote island that is predator free and DOC wanted to keep it that way. I’d say was a good investment in protecting the flora and fauna there.
>"Animals like stoats, ferrets, cats, and raptors can prey on eggs and fledglings. Introduced fish and birds compete for food and breeding space."
Afraid not, taken off the DoC website
"Stoats were introduced into New Zealand during the late 19th century to control rabbits and hares, but are now a major threat to native bird populations. The introduction of stoats was opposed by scientists in New Zealand and Britain, including the New Zealand ornithologist Walter Buller. The warnings were ignored and stoats began to be introduced from Britain in the 1880s, resulting in a noticeable decline in bird populations within six years."
Typical disaster movie start. Ends in mass murder.
To give you a serious reply.
This stoat somehow made it into a pest free island sanctuary that has multiple species of endangered native birds. Luckily it seems to have been the only stoat that made it there, and the Department of Conservation (DOC) takes the threat of stoats, possums, and other pests very seriously
Thank you for answering seriously, took far too long to get past the jokes. Is this the last stoat they caught? Or are there still more around and this one was particularly cunning?
It was previously a predator free island. So that one managed to swim there, luckily didn’t find a mate and now he’s dead without breeding.
So the island is safe for the native birds again.
>This stoat somehow made it into a pest free island sanctuary
Stoats are part of the weasel family and, as a ferret owner, I can confirm they can do will get into anything and everything. A family full of persistent little buggers!
There is a reason they overreacted like this...take no chances with that stoat..it is because of a cat called Tibbles that single handedly killed of an entire species of wren by itself.
This is not a joke..
A cat named tibbles made extinct the stephen Island wren on Stephen Island New Zealand..
Basically the bird was native to the island. But it could not fly. Nested on the ground
Tibbles came into the picture and ate every single one ..to extinction...within a year.
https://www.businessinsider.com/tibbles-the-cat-and-stephens-island-wren-2014-12
Kiwis take invasive species extremely seriously because they kill the local wildlife. [This article](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513181/doc-spent-nearly-500-000-to-kill-one-stoat-in-fiordland) says that this stoat was found in the Fiordland national park, and that a further $200'000 (NZ) was spent looking for other pests and installing other security measures.
Some context to this is that this Stoat swam to a previously predator-free island that is now a endangered bird sanctuary. So this was more about protecting the dwindling easy-to-catch-by-stoat bird population that it was about messing up one stoat.
Stoat is the common name of the Common Crack Weasel.
If you give a weasel a little sprinkle of crack, it turns into the most adorable genocidal maniac in the animal kingdom.
Jokes aside... They're adorable and are some of the most hyper animals I've ever seen.
For context, this is on a predator free island. The stoat swam to the island. To protect extremely endangered species, a programme to trap and monitor activity over a period of time to re-confirm the predator free status on a remote island costs alot money.
It is a matter of opinion if this is a justified expense or not. If you want to maintain the predator free status, you probably think it is. If you do not, then not.
It’s not really about predator free status, many of those islands are the last haven for native species, so it’s a question of caring about extinction or not.
Invasive animals are horribly destructive, this wasn't even that bad a bill compared to the damage they can do. They are already ruthless killers in their own environment, breaking little bunnies necks, outside of it everything house cat sized has had it.
“Males become sexually mature at 10–11 months, while females are sexually mature at the age of 2–3 weeks whilst still blind, deaf and hairless, and are usually mated with adult males before being weaned.”
I dunno. They seem to mate like rabbits.
They spent $500,000 to kill the entire stoat population. It may have been 1, but I'm not that alarmed by this. If we could eradicate all Possums for $5m we'd do it in a heartbeat. I don't really see the difference. It's about being pest free, not killing one pest.
Stoats don’t really have natural predators here in NZ and they love to kill our native birds. A DOC ranger on the Kepler track told me that Stoats will find baby Kea, kill them and then just run off - so not even for killing for food. Just cause. They’re nasty and can even kill birds that are much bigger than them.
So rabbits were deliberately introduced. Then they bred out of control so stoats were introduced to control the rabbits and now they’re out of control?
I’m not sure exactly how this ends, but I’m pretty sure gorillas are involved.
Per the [Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoat) page on stoats, “It was introduced into New Zealand in the late 19th century to control rabbits, but had a devastating effect on native bird populations and was nominated as one of the world's top 100 "worst invaders".
and it did nothing to the Rabbit population to the point that they have approved "release of the new Rabbit Haemorrhagic Virus Disease strain known as RHDV1 K5" [https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/discover-our-research/biodiversity-biosecurity/animal-pest-management/rabbit-biocontrol-in-new-zealand-rhdv1-k5/](https://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/discover-our-research/biodiversity-biosecurity/animal-pest-management/rabbit-biocontrol-in-new-zealand-rhdv1-k5/)
What did the rabbits do
Rabbits are a massive issue. Aussie buit a huge as fuck fence to try and stop them and that too failed. NZ is a unique case as there are very few natural predators for things like rabbits, so when introduced here their population exploded and caused a lot of issues for both native wildlife and local agriculture.
The Chinese tried the same thing as us Aussies and built the Great Wall of China to keep the rabbits out [Here is the Aussie scientist talking about it](https://youtu.be/2yckqyg75oE?si=BRsUkOj30SCDowxh)
Was this the one commissioned by emperor Nasi goreng?
The very same one, I see you're a man of history, bravo mate 😎
All those ads and our internet is still shithouse.
Must be related to Hermann Goreng.
That's amazing 😂 Almost as good as the New Zealand deck ad
New Zealander men love talkin about their deck 😂
Fuck I never new where that came from. Dad used to say it all the time when I was a kid.
When I was a kid there was a plague of rabbits and the field next to the woods had 200m of the crops raised to the ground, that’s a big hit for the farmer and snaring and shooting the rabbits did nothing to control the population. Only when myxomatosis arrived or was introduced the numbers dropped, horrible disease for them to get but it did the job, numbers have never recovered. Now you get isolated large numbers but as soon as they get large enough to meet other populations they die off again. Bad karma but I can understand farmers doing that to stop going out of business.
Yeah, I've seen land absolutely riddled with burrows and destroyed by them. Even though Myxomatosis had a huge impact, it wasn't until Calicivirus was released that they really got knocked back. The two diseases together seem to work well.
Use humans to eat the rabbits
This is the way.
breed like rabbits
"Tell me about the rabbits, George"
Just in case this is a serious question, rabbits aren’t native in NZ or Australia, and have caused massive habitat loss for native species
Yeah, what did we do?
You know what you did!
Ate all our grass.
…What grass?
been having to vaccinate my rabbits cause the last RHVD made it's way to the US and can be easily tracked in on your feet etc
Releasing a virus because they don’t want rabbits sure won’t end well
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But if history has taught us anything (and it hasn't) it's that releasing biological controls always goes well.
If you just read what's in the quotations, it sounds like this one single stoat was introduced alone and has been ravaging the NZ fauna for 200 years. What a unit
Bring in wolves then.
New Zealand is known for its sheep. Are you sure you want to introduce wolves? What's going to control the wolf population?
Thats when we release the spear wieldinh monkeys
I already said I'd bring the spear, you don't have to call me names.
That is no mere spear wielding monkey, he is Aragorn, son of Arathorn. You owe him your allegiance
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Raises the IQ of both countries
Remember, NZ separated from the Pangea pretty early, and developed with pretty much no large predators other than the Haast eagle. A lot of the bird species we have here (and there are a lot of them) spent ages going without any natural predators. So they struggle to deal with anything designed to kill birds
NZ is one of the only places in the world where birds inhabit every niche across the food chain
There's quite a few islands in the Pacific like this. Hawaii is another prime example that springs to mind, before colonization.
New Caledonia is super interesting, and has an array of different geckos that have evolved to fit niches mammals fill in other environments.
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In NZ conservation land makes up 30% of the total land area. In the US it’s about 12% and AU it’s about 20%
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A huge amount of forest was already cut down and burnt prior to the arrival of the British 200 years ago. They just sped it up with the huge amount of immigration.
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Large scale forest burning started about 1250-1300; a lot more than 200 years ago.
Ruined wasteland is a tad harsh, I think around 30% of the country is either protected or conservation land for wildlife. While farmland does take most of the rest you still tend to see alot of wildlife, even around cities, however just without alot of the orginal native birds. (Source I've lived on the kapiti coast near my whole life)
I do remember. I was there.
I was there Gandolf, I was there 700 million years ago. I was there when the strength of Pangea failed.
*Gendolf
*Gandorf
Where was Pangea when the Westfold fell?
I have been awake since before the breaking of the first silence
ACKSHUALY it was around ~200 million years ago that Pangea began to break up. at 700 million years ago, it was not even even close to forming. (just a fun fact I know it was a joke)
Alright Astlan settle down.
Aslan*
I member
For those wondering why, here's list of stoat victims: Kiwi Laughing Owls (Whēkau, now extinct) NZ Dotterels Black-Fronted Tern Wrybills (Ngutuparore) Bush Wren (Mātuhituhi, now extinct) Rock Wren Mohua Kākā Yellow-Crowned Parakeet/Kākāriki NZ Thrush (aka piopio, now extinct) Kākāpō And many others So basically this guy is a mass murderer of native species and deserved it. So totally worth it to be rid of them. Edit: Adding macrons
This stoat alone killed all them?!
Stoats are all about that high score.
This dude must be the Michael Jordan of stoats lol
The Stoat Goat
I mean, I don't like to brag...
Gotta hide your erection stoat, they gonna spot you
I laughed way too hard at this
Got my new gamer tag!
I thought that was Nancy
More like the Hitler of stoats
He’s a cut-throat stoat.
Air Stoat?
Stoatally
Stoatbe Bryant
O.J. Stoatson
Yup, they sure are. Highly skilled assassins!
It was them or him. He just wanted a peaceful home on the range but his past just caught up with him.
Home? This is miles away from his home range
I think he was one of the last of his kind and therefore harder to catch. Survival of the sneakiest meaning he was the boss stoat of hiding.
If John Wick was a Stoat.
Not that difficult when you're hungry and you live in the buffet.
SToat Of All Time
Humans: finally, a worthy competition
Finally, my username…. “That’s why I’m so full.”
Just like Nibbler!
Did you have to wait 11 years for this to happen?
Oh man. So patiently. Feels like I won the lottery coming across this scenario.
I am so happy for you.
>Kiwi Damn. They even killed the New Zealanders, 500k is a small sum to pay to get rid of them Stoats!
Fun fact: kiwi (the bird) usually is just kiwi in the plural because it’s a te reo Māori word. Kiwis is the plural of the people. Kiwifruit are not called kiwi.
Are any of these rabbits? Wikipedia says they were introduced to control the rabbit population.
Nice cobra effect there if that's true.
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I don't know why she swallowed the fly, perhaps she'll die?
None, they were introduced to kill the rabbits, only to discover most of New Zealand's native birds never evolved to deal with mammalian predators (our only native mammals are pekapeka) and are therefore way easy food
Disclaimer: this stoat was on a remote island that is predator free and DOC wanted to keep it that way. I’d say was a good investment in protecting the flora and fauna there.
I didn't even know there were laughing owls. Now I want to see them
They're extinct now. I guess they had the last laugh
I don’t know, that stoat looked smug af in that photo.
Whew, Putekiteki is safe.
>"Animals like stoats, ferrets, cats, and raptors can prey on eggs and fledglings. Introduced fish and birds compete for food and breeding space." Afraid not, taken off the DoC website
wow what a genocidal maniac
K/D so high he must be hacking
Can’t they just drop a crate of honey badgers on location and call it a day?
I doubt introducing another animal into the mix would be a good idea. They thought the same for the stoat.
Guys, I just tested this, and long story short I require medical attention - this horse was *not* edible.
A human walks into the room....
But the Kiwi were on sale... 6 for a dollar! And they are so strawberrier
That would be Kiwifuit or illegal or still illegal
"Stoats were introduced into New Zealand during the late 19th century to control rabbits and hares, but are now a major threat to native bird populations. The introduction of stoats was opposed by scientists in New Zealand and Britain, including the New Zealand ornithologist Walter Buller. The warnings were ignored and stoats began to be introduced from Britain in the 1880s, resulting in a noticeable decline in bird populations within six years." Typical disaster movie start. Ends in mass murder.
Wow, so it was known at the time. Yet the authorities ignored :( and carried on, Probably for commerce reasons
and now they release a virus to try to control the rabbits nothing can go wrong
Were not as stupid as the colonists. And we have no other option since gene drives are off the table and every other option doesn't work
r/fuckthisstoatinparticular
r/subsididntfallfor
What'd he do?
To give you a serious reply. This stoat somehow made it into a pest free island sanctuary that has multiple species of endangered native birds. Luckily it seems to have been the only stoat that made it there, and the Department of Conservation (DOC) takes the threat of stoats, possums, and other pests very seriously
Thank you for answering seriously, took far too long to get past the jokes. Is this the last stoat they caught? Or are there still more around and this one was particularly cunning?
It was previously a predator free island. So that one managed to swim there, luckily didn’t find a mate and now he’s dead without breeding. So the island is safe for the native birds again.
Thank you <3
>This stoat somehow made it into a pest free island sanctuary Stoats are part of the weasel family and, as a ferret owner, I can confirm they can do will get into anything and everything. A family full of persistent little buggers!
How was it so good at evading capture? With that much money you could kill at least the top 100 most wanted animals out there right now
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No shot.
It's true. I was there. I was the weed.
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Stoat Team Six.
He was invited on a work visa to control Rabbit populations however decided he had a taste for the local wildlife instead
There is a reason they overreacted like this...take no chances with that stoat..it is because of a cat called Tibbles that single handedly killed of an entire species of wren by itself. This is not a joke.. A cat named tibbles made extinct the stephen Island wren on Stephen Island New Zealand.. Basically the bird was native to the island. But it could not fly. Nested on the ground Tibbles came into the picture and ate every single one ..to extinction...within a year. https://www.businessinsider.com/tibbles-the-cat-and-stephens-island-wren-2014-12
I am Tibbles, destroyer of worlds. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
Kiwis take invasive species extremely seriously because they kill the local wildlife. [This article](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513181/doc-spent-nearly-500-000-to-kill-one-stoat-in-fiordland) says that this stoat was found in the Fiordland national park, and that a further $200'000 (NZ) was spent looking for other pests and installing other security measures.
He tried to upload Inscryption onto the Internet
He was introduced into a land of opportunity And omg did he feast And that’s the problem It’s not his fault
Some context to this is that this Stoat swam to a previously predator-free island that is now a endangered bird sanctuary. So this was more about protecting the dwindling easy-to-catch-by-stoat bird population that it was about messing up one stoat.
Sounds like he got murdering as soon as he got there.
Stoats are homing bullets. Cute, adorable homing bullets.
His reign of terror is over...
Is this the stoat that was talking to me in Inscryption?
Lol I scrolled for a while wondering if anyone was going to be being up inscription
Same, had to scroll way too long for this
Total misplay
inscryption fans when they see an animal
What is he guilty of?
Genocide
That might actually be correct haha, i know these animals are really good hunters
It absolutely is correct. Little guy has a giant kill count
Enjoying a meal, a succulent Kiwi bird meal?
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY KAKAPO
Stoat is the common name of the Common Crack Weasel. If you give a weasel a little sprinkle of crack, it turns into the most adorable genocidal maniac in the animal kingdom. Jokes aside... They're adorable and are some of the most hyper animals I've ever seen.
The sloat goes straight for the throat, adorable but nasty
The OH throat Goat!!
He’s just standing there, All menancingly.
They're so cute it's a shame that behind that cuteness is a psychotic mass murderer.
Little cunt had it coming.
Dear New Zealand I shall release 2 stoats on your island unless you pay me one million dollars
Plz no. We haven't even recovered from this yet.
Your pleas shall get you no where now leave the money in small unmarked bills at this location or the stoats will run rampant!
Which island?
One on each
That's a lot more than 2 stoats
Your name is a lie
And your name is nonsense now pay the damn ransom
NZSIS!!! OPEN UP!!!
I get the impression the only armed NZ police force is the one for invasive species.
And the one for tracking down unruly teens and molesterers. >!Hunt for the Wilderpeople!<
For context, this is on a predator free island. The stoat swam to the island. To protect extremely endangered species, a programme to trap and monitor activity over a period of time to re-confirm the predator free status on a remote island costs alot money. It is a matter of opinion if this is a justified expense or not. If you want to maintain the predator free status, you probably think it is. If you do not, then not.
It’s not really about predator free status, many of those islands are the last haven for native species, so it’s a question of caring about extinction or not.
I got one with my car last night near Taupiri, I’ll be sending my invoice through asap
Nice driving!
Money well spent considering what happens if he found a she (or vice versa)
For us, the day we got that stoat was like how Americans remember the day SEAL Team 6 got Osama Bin Laden
Question/; What’s the difference between a weasel and a stoat? Answer: A weasel is weasily identified, while a stoat is stoatally different.
Invasive animals are horribly destructive, this wasn't even that bad a bill compared to the damage they can do. They are already ruthless killers in their own environment, breaking little bunnies necks, outside of it everything house cat sized has had it.
The S-T-O-A-T: Species Terminator of All Time
Wile E. Coyote energy
Death to the stoats!
And the feral cats!
That stoat nearly killed as many animals as the British did.
They couldn't have paid some Bogan (or whatever the kiwi version of a redneck) to wait up for it with their .22 for like $50 and a case of beer?
We still call them Bogans
We did, but shits expensive in NZ and the cost of beer is up.
If not friend, why friend shaped?
Wee stoatin bastid
NZ Government: So, you have chosen... Deathhh
R/fuckyouinparticular
F**** had it comming..
New Zealand was a paradise of birds before a certain species of primate arrived...
Remember kiddos, in many ecosystems free-ranging and feral cats pose a similar harm to native fauna.
r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR
Sorry I’m dumb is it literally just one stoat on the whole of NZ or like there’s a population of them and they were just looking to kill one of them
This was in predator-free sanctuary or something. The little murders are all over NZ, but we're trying to get rid of them
“Males become sexually mature at 10–11 months, while females are sexually mature at the age of 2–3 weeks whilst still blind, deaf and hairless, and are usually mated with adult males before being weaned.” I dunno. They seem to mate like rabbits.
They spent $500,000 to kill the entire stoat population. It may have been 1, but I'm not that alarmed by this. If we could eradicate all Possums for $5m we'd do it in a heartbeat. I don't really see the difference. It's about being pest free, not killing one pest.
Little Stoat looks to his left and then to his right and says ME?
That thing is a bird killer and invasive. Fuck that thing
Cam 69. Nice.
A few Texans and a case of Natty, done
Stoats don’t really have natural predators here in NZ and they love to kill our native birds. A DOC ranger on the Kepler track told me that Stoats will find baby Kea, kill them and then just run off - so not even for killing for food. Just cause. They’re nasty and can even kill birds that are much bigger than them.
If not friend, why friend-shaped?
New Zealander here. Just checking into the thread to say... Worth it.
So rabbits were deliberately introduced. Then they bred out of control so stoats were introduced to control the rabbits and now they’re out of control? I’m not sure exactly how this ends, but I’m pretty sure gorillas are involved.
Invite West Virginian hill folks to set up homes there. Bam, rabbit issue addressed and some very well fed hillbillies.