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

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FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. The FWC then proceeded to kill the total 34 pythons using a bolt gun. After killing Coffee's pythons, the FWC then committed another criminal act.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

The Crested Serpent-eagle is not a vulture, but that does not keep me from mentioning a recent Economist article here, “The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people” And while this article is behind a paywall, the original research paper is not.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

I remember that when I was still a research chemist developing dental materials, I once gave a presentation at that university, which was followed by my receiving a hideous and very colorful plate as a gift afterward. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies. The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. If you are afraid of spiders, you might want to get a pet Streaked Spiderhunter.

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Releasing White Doves

10,000 Birds

Think twice, and do some research. People who want to release birds on the cheap buy doves – usually Ring-necked Doves – from pet stores, and release them themselves. Wildlife rehabilitators constantly receive lost racing pigeons who are starving, riddled with lice, and suffering from coccidia, trichinosis, or worms.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Research has shown that if noise and stress are reduced, adoptions go up! Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

He pairs conventional wisdom with actual research on such wisdom and speaks to experts who’ve been pondering the issues from the perspectives of their various disciplines. The research, much of the time, doesn’t support the conventional wisdom (which is not to say the case is closed on any issue). All day long.

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