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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

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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Vultures, Human Evolution, Global Warming, and Windmills

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The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged. Eland are pretty darn hard to hunt.

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From the Niagara Frontier: A Book Review of “Birder’s Break”

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But when both birds approached an eagle, it attacked: the hawk was able to evade the eagle, but not so the crow, which was killed instantly. and the Buffalo native Fred Szatkowki. and the Buffalo native Fred Szatkowki.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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On Objections to Slaughterhouses Not Sandwich Shops

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I think I'm going to start a contest for the most absurd/ironic/bizarre sentence to come out of the mouth of a human each week. The inaugural winner would be John Carbonaro, who found an article called " Slaughterhouse in Buffalo Wins Zoning Approval."

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Joy for Orphan Elephants

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Most likely orphaned by poachers who killed her mother for profit, the one-year-old baby is believed to have been subsequently attacked by local Maasai tribesmen who were angry about losing their traditional grazing land to the park. The spear had penetrated ten inches, rupturing her sinuses, which prevented her from using her trunk to drink.

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72 dangerous animals africa

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forest buffalo: The African forest buffalo is a small subspecies of the African buffalo. Cape buffaloes weigh 425 to 870 kg (937 to 1,918 lb), whereas African forest buffaloes are much lighter, weighing in at 250 to 320 kg (550–705 lbs). Their eyesight is so acute that buffalos often graze at night.

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