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A Fierce Cartoon Bird: Steller’s Sea Eagle on Hokkaido

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Even the review has some interesting information – for example, a major predator of eagle nests is the Brown Bear. Another danger to the species comes from lead poisoning as they eat the carcasses of deer killed by hunters ( source ).

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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

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Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. For example, they make three different types of tools from the long, barbed leaves of the screw pine tree. I wondered what in the world he’d brought back and discovered the wet ball of fur was a very young bunny. Photo by Paul Huber.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Let us now give an example of wise conservation of what remains of the gifts of nature.”

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