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Thought experiment

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If you put some animals (both wild and domestic) on an island and left them there to roam free and we come back after a few years who would survive. Would suprisngly rodents and small animals. The ones who would last until the very end would be lions , tigers bears, eagles and wolves. In my opinion dogs would be the first to go.

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The Parable of the Goat Mites

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And so, when Salvador Ramirez left, there were feral goats on the island of San Clemente, the southernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of California. And so the Friends of Animals took them to court, demanding an injunction and a return to live-trapping. And so, the U.S.

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Pied Oystercatchers continue to nest

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Black Kites , Whistling Kites , Brahminy Kites and White-bellied Sea-Eagles are soon chased off if they fly along the coast in the vicinity of the nest and the Pied Oystercatcher returns to the eggs. The animal walks from nest to nest and it is clear that the nest had been there some time by the number of footprints.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals. Feral Pigeon – Columba livia dom.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

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eagles and vultures ) so we need to pay attention. Also, in relatively natural, or wild, lands in much of the US the feral cat population will be limited by a healthy wild predator population. By-catch is the catchy word for animals that are killed from fishing that are not the fish being fished.

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Pahokee Opens for Project Treadstone

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A branch of Palm Beach County's Animal Care & Control that has been closed for a long, long time and has reopened. Here's the biggest feral cat I've ever seen, who looks like somebody's house cat. This time it's Little Black: Stay tuned also for photos of the eagle's nest down the block that has a baby!