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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

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Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days. Will all rescued animals survive to have a happy ending? Veterinarians were taught animals did not “feel” like we did.

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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few.

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Seal Industry Tries to Capitalize on Medical Researchers Conjectures

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While I'm not a fan of using animal hearts for transplants, I'm far more sympathetic to that than to simply using their parts for human vanity consumption. But the seal industry doesn't care. They'll exploit anything to try to save their barbaric trade and, if they can use guilt, even better. Excerpted from the Chronicle-Herald.

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

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Notably, this is a vey small number compared to the number of rodents killed by the same cats. By-catch is the catchy word for animals that are killed from fishing that are not the fish being fished. About 15 million birds are killed annually by hunters, and of course this is distributed among a very small number of species.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Image taken in Uganda’s Budongo Forest by Adam Riley Buffalo The big – to anyone familiar with the wilds of Africa, the Cape or African Buffalo is the most fearsome of all animals.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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He also had tigers, cougars, and some other animals. And for rodents and reptiles as well. This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. Smaller and larger animals (if there are any) are taken by other creatures.

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Striding Snake-killers

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The quills of the “Saqu Ettair” Secretarybirds feed on small lizards, insects, rodents, birds eggs and, of course, snakes. I’ve seen Secretarybirds zigzag after fleeing animals, spreading their huge wings periodically, presumably in an effort to maintain their balance as they twist and turn.

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