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BLM bans cyanide bombs on public lands amid safety concerns

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Cyanide bombs are used to kill predator species that prey on livestock, but the devices unintentionally kill thousands of animals each year. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is taking steps to stop the use of M-44 devices that deliver sodium cyanide on public land.

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. Plain old fashioned Fun.”.

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What animal species are evil, i.e eat their offspring

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Tiger and Squirel males will kill a mother's children so she will become broody and be back for mating season. I'm just wondering what other species of animals are awful? I know dolphins are rapists, zoophiles using other fish for flashlights , and necrophiliacs.

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

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However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart.

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What species are pretty kind to each other.

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Orcas play with there food, bottled nose dolhpins just rape the women that refuses, baby killing is common, and parasite somehow evolved to be in a fishes tongue. Elephants mourn the dead, and any animal we domesicated arent going to kill us or each other hopefully. And not just animals that eat grass hopefully.

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Question: looking for animal info

Reddit Animals

Is there a species of social animal that kills members of its species when they hoard too many resources? Like an animal equivalent to "eat the rich?" " submitted by /u/Nhymerael [link] [comments]

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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There’s also a much greater variety of species of deer living here now than than there were four or five hundred years ago, for along with our native Roe and Red Deer we also have large populations of Fallow, Sika, Reeves’s Muntjac and Chinese Water Deer. Reeves’s Muntjac , a highly successful invasive species in the UK.

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