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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. This is a juvenile Grey-headed Fish Eagle , unless it is another fish eagle like the Lesser (the lack of any grey head makes me doubt the identification a bit, but it seems juveniles cannot afford a grey head yet).

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

Reddit Animals

I know dolphins are rapists, zoophiles using other fish for flashlights , and necrophiliacs. 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?

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Birding Shanghai in May 2022

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But indeed they vanish somewhere once the people pretending to try and catch fish appear. In our compound, a better name for the Black-crowned Night Herons would be Black-crowned Early Morning Herons. Even though they probably do not need to be afraid of the competition. But the stars of the month were some breeding Eurasian Tree Sparrows.

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Little Big Year -Week 38: Our first week in Costa Rica

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This Amazon Kingfisher is big, but it still had a real mouth full with this fish. After bashing it on a branch to kill it, it did finally get it swallowed. An even bigger kingfisher, one who would have had a lot less trouble with a fish that size, is the Ringed Kingfisher pictured below.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). At a minimum, catching and releasing a fish inflicts pain, terror, and temporary disability. Often it permanently disables or kills.

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Shark Attack Experiment: LIVE

4 The Love Of Animals

It is home to some of the most concentrated and diverse shark populations in the world, including species with a reputation for attacking people, such as great white, bull, tiger, black tip, ragged tooth and dusky sharks. Does exposed human skin, like bare feet, bring them in for the kill? Time of day. Panic and fear.

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Disaster in the Sundarbans

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Due to the Ganges floods, their planned weekend of sailing through the labyrinth of channels turned into a week-long stay among about 270 Tigers , according to the 2011 census – the last population inhabiting mangroves and one of the highest concentrations anywhere on the planet! And tell me now – don’t you share my dream?