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I fear so..
 
As someone who grows up on an rural region of Brazil, it's always funny to me seeing some people struggling to realize that animals exotic from them are someone else wild animals.

Capybaras are a prime example, outside of SA they are just cute and adorable, here in they habitat? They are still quite adorable, just don't come closer to them or they might pass you spotted fever, oh and you probably don't want them around your farm considering they will eat your crops, and they might kill your pet (personal experience here, my grandpa dog almost died because he come to close to a capybara, he is fine nowadays though).

And the same is valid for several animals, coatis, jaguars, giant otters, most other carnivores, tapirs, birds of prey and even monkeys sometimes. What i am trying to say is that, don't assume that just because an animal isn't causing trouble on your garden, doesn't mean he isn't causing trouble in someone else garden.

Also a more important note: no animal is a pest, it's not they fault that for survive in this shrinking world they will eventually enter people territory.
 
About labelling species as "pests". This is a humancentric term, there is nothing scientific about it.

We can't be mad about wild animals expressing their nature and needing to eat. A fox ate my grandma's chickens that I helped raise when I was a kid. I was devastated and hated foxes for a while, because I had child logic and thought the fox was somehow malicious. The fox was just being a fox. I grew up a little bit and learned to adore foxes again. And to build better coops. It was our fault the poor chicks fell prey, not the hungry fox, probably trying to feed her cubs as it was spring. This was in England, but I think coyotes or something got to my American grandma's chickens too (could have been my grandpa 😅)

But my grandparents are all awesome so they were just happy to have wildlife around (and did not replace the chickens as they felt so guilty).
 
Why are we all so concerned about things that we can reasonably assume? The sifaka hopped, the gibbons swung, the proboscis monkey and saki get dimorphism, why would we assume the coyote won't get their own sound?

Now I get complaining if it were after the fact - after all the pangolin doesn't climb, Nile monitor doesn't deep-dive, Malaysian tapir was a literal clone - but at this point it's just doomthinking. And all the bad examples are either from the base game or have been fixed.
The whole not hopping thing stemed from the fact that the sifaka was behaving completely unnatural in the shown pictures. So being afraid they dont include the hoping when the "evidence" very clearly pointed to them just being a lemur clone wasnt the craziest thing.
Hoping was include ofcourse, but the original concern that they are just a lemur clone still turned out to be true, in part atleast.
 
About labelling species as "pests". This is a humancentric term, there is nothing scientific about it.

We can't be mad about wild animals expressing their nature and needing to eat. A fox ate my grandma's chickens that I helped raise when I was a kid. I was devastated and hated foxes for a while, because I had child logic and thought the fox was somehow malicious. The fox was just being a fox. I grew up a little bit and learned to adore foxes again. And to build better coops. It was our fault the poor chicks fell prey, not the hungry fox, probably trying to feed her cubs as it was spring. This was in England, but I think coyotes or something got to my American grandma's chickens too (could have been my grandpa 😅)
I love Gods world and I kill Wild Animals for food
 
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