Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. The FWC then proceeded to kill the total 34 pythons using a bolt gun.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 215

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

I saw two Pitta species at Hongbenghe, both among the slightly less glamourous among the pitta family: The Blue-naped Pitta … … and the closely related Rusty-naped Pitta. It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. In the months after a fire, wildlife populations can suffer substantial losses due to habitat alteration and destruction. A fire might kill weak birds or, depending on the time of year, claim nestlings. So what do these facts mean for our wildlife?

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Wildlife Sacramento Shelters Science 102

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. ” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent. “Dull, me?

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 184