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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Obviously killing contests have nothing to do with traditional hunting, and “animal abuse” is normally used when describing domestic animals.

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How did the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale get its name?

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People in North America began using the term “right whale” in the early 1700s, and originally “right” may have meant “typical,” as these whales were considered common and ordinary. However, over time, the term evolved to refer to how they were hunted—they were considered “the right whales to hunt.”

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Northern Arapahoes Given Right to Kill Eagles for Religious Purposes

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A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says. The Northern Arapaho decline to say specifically what they will do with the eagles the federal permit allows them to kill.

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(Sorta graphic) What killed this bird?

Reddit Animals

Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but please direct me somewhere else because I'm very curious. This poor bird had a broken wing for a while and today I saw it dead. Me and my step-dad were trying to work out how it died, since I've never seen anything like it. Looks like the head was almost ripped off?

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Save the Whales! Kill Some Gulls?

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Gulls in Argentina have learned to land on Southern Right Whales as the whales come to the surface to breathe. Kill the gulls. The gulls then peck at the whales’ backs, causing wounds from which the gulls feed. The solution? There has to be a better way to deal with this, no?

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I don’t know if this is the right subreddit but,

Reddit Animals

I found some guy who calls himself saifVsPets on TikTok and he depicts his gacha character killing pets and animals is there anything I can do? Video link here [link] submitted by /u/PotentialLogical8816 [link] [comments]

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Courier-Journal Gets It Right

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The Sandhill Crane hunt in Kentucky is over for the season and only fifty birds were killed. While fifty dead birds is still fifty too many, it is better than the 400 that could have been killed under the rules of the hunting season.

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