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Feral Cat Advocates Lie

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They get hit by cars, suffer from parasites, predated upon by coyotes, and die from disease. Birds are a long way down a cat’s food chain so well-fed cats tend not to hunt at all, he says. Birds are, with reptiles amphibians, and mammals, the prey that feral cats kill. Outdoor cats live short, ugly, violent lives.

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The Florida FWC illegally killed 34 pythons and one 10-year-old pregnant Boa constrictor

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New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. They respond to pain in the same way.

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The great green Caribbean lowlands – Costa Rica

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One of those pooie reptiles: Green Iguana by Niklas Aronsson. Or even those pooie reptiles. Working with the local jaguar conservancy, he learned that there are 10 or 11 different animals hunting peccaries and other prey at Selva Bananito. And if the amount is taken into consideration, I guess this has to be a much better omen.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. Even though the English name may indicate that it mainly feeds on crests, it really mostly eats reptiles, primarily tree snakes (HBW). A bit of chemical knowledge may help you understand the Latin species name of the Golden-fronted Leafbird.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. You cannot care about the individual, not at that level of suffering.