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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

If that’s not possible, she needs the knowledgeable care of a licensed wildlife rehabilitator. Wildlife rehabbers love the public. Why do wildlife rehabilitators not love the public? They would realize that wild owls fly silently through the night and grab unwary rodents, not unsuspecting packages of processed cow meat.

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Why are chimpanzees catching SIV from other monkey prey they eat?

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Hyenas eat anything, but their digestive system lets them, whereas chimpanzees ultimately, purposely ate meat that let to disease. This is very unnatural, weird and different to wildlife instinct.Which resembles humans, where we would often try to achieve something that is not necessarily good for us (and this is pretty self explanatory).

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Situation Critical for Zimbabwe Wildlife

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War and chaos is bad for everyone, human and non-human. Out-of-control poaching is apparently wiping out all sort of wildlife, including hippos. Tags: bush meat poaching zimbabwe wildlife. In Zimbabwe, activists claim impoverished Zimbabweans are killing elephants and eating them.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Milk or Bread

10,000 Birds

Raptors feed their young meat. It’s a wonder wildlife rehabilitators have any hair left by the end of the summer, as we’ve been so busy tearing it out over people who have found a baby bird and tried to help by squirting milk down his throat or stuffing him with bread. Call a wildlife rehabilitator!

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

10,000 Birds

Wildlife rehabilitators are a multi-tasking lot. At least bacon is meat,” added Letitia Labbie. “We People walk in and hand you a box, which you know will contain the wildlife and some bizarre food item. I opened the box, and there was a bowl of raw hamburger meat in there for him to eat.” Poor thing was hyperglycemic.”.

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What’s in a Name: Northern Goshawk

10,000 Birds

As Macdonald herself amply proves, this is classic projection, another case of the human seeing in the nonhuman only what we want to see. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Language as a tool for projection is, I expect, a theme that will crop up again and again in this series. Birds Goshawk names Northern Goshawk'

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Listen Today on WALO Radio

Animal Person

Today, March 30th, at 3:00 East Coast time, Susan Soltero of Puerto Rico will interview me live on the air at WALO Radio about Responsible Policies for Animals' 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry! Let me know if you hear the show!