What species from Earth would you expect to see make the journey to the stars with us?<br /><br />To answer this I suppose that the scope of the colonization effort should be addressed:<br /><br />small science colony- probably a green house full of plants and a small managable animal for protien<br /><br />Small seeder colony- like in the old sid myer Civilization game where to win you built a space ship and sent it to Alpha Centarri with 10,000 colonist- probably a whole host of plants and a handful of animals.<br /><br />Rabbits and pidgeons are easy to raise and a source of protien but not a source of fat. "Rabbit Starvation" is a significant problem with a diet lacking fats. Chickens, dogs, cows? Horses? Pigs?<br /><br />I would think that goats might be a good choice for the milk, and cheese products as well as the meat.<br /><br />Horses could be problematic but might make sense for a colony expecting to be limited to muscle power.<br />Alligators? they are regularly farmed in FA (the reason they've been down graded on the endangered species list), they're not finicky eaters, and the meat tastes like pork as well as being a source of leather.<br /><br />llamas and the like- beast of burden and the wool as well as meat.<br />
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