How can you be sure that it's the same peacock in Nambe? Cody Smith
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Ray - > >> A similar flock has been free-ranging the Albuquerque valley area near >> Broadway and Montano. >> > I don't think I ever make it down that way. I'm always heartened to see a > little "wild" in the city. > >> Some friends of mine whose property is roamed got married some years ago >> and they had a wedding dinner featuring roast peacock. It's a little >> greasy, like duck, and tastes somewhere between duck and goose. >> > And free-range, if not (almost surely) organic to boot! I've always > wondered what the rules about "harvesting" feral animals might be... > especially in a city. Is that NM Fish&Game rules or Bernalillo country > Animal Control purview? My Appalachy ancestors loved their squirrel and > possum (not feral but verminish). I assume that the last generation's > homeless (aka Hobos) fed off of anything they could catch (pigeons, rats, > ???) with gusto while today I suspect most of us would starve to death > while pigeons shat upon us and rats tugged at our leather shoes/belts while > we slept. > >> When I first moved into Corrales, there were several flocks of guinea >> hens that migrated north-south twice-daily across the generally east-west >> properties. Those were the remnant of a flock released when a local farmer >> failed to make any money raising them. >> > We had 3 (remaining of 4 after an Owl snagged one) Geese and 8 chickens > when we gave them up to move to Berkeley in 2005. I was amazed that both, > raised from chicks/goslings were happy to remain within our property > boundaries (how do they recognize a barbed wire fence as a boundary?) as a > matter of course. Maybe they recognized the territory of our dog (who > also for the most part respected the same boundaries) as being (mostly) > coyote free? I suppose that Pea and Guinea fowl are probably much > closer to "wild" and of course water birds are going to stay close/return > to their water. > >> I would expect that there has not been sufficient time for real genetic >> variations to develop in any of these isolated communities. >> > If I'm right about the timeline of the Nambe Peacocks, it seems like an > isolated and relatively small community of order 100 generations with no > (or few?) introductions and no (or little) human intervention (except as > patrons)? > > - Steve > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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