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Get Thee To A Wildlife Rehabilitator

10,000 Birds

Explanations are simple: only a mother rabbit or a highly trained rehabilitator has a chance of raising and releasing a healthy wild bunny. Instead, bring your child to fundraisers, to sanctuaries, to demonstrations with trained education animals. That is, until … you get the picture.

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Invasive species in Australia

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The feral cats were thought to have arrived as pets during early European settlement and then more were introduced to control rabbits and rodents, but now they inhabit all of Australia including offshore islands and are responsible for a high percentage of native species loss. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs.

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Why Top Chef Makes Me So Mad

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First of all, it highlights the deficiencies of today's chefs' training. And frankly, I'm not sure these chefs have the training to do anything that doesn't involve a baby animal. The main challenge involves frog legs, rabbits, live lobsters (still moving) and other animals. It just irritates the hell out of me. That's not true.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Curious and inventive, he figured out he didn’t need their assistance, just their instructions to help him capture and train a young Cooper’s Hawk. Inexperienced, perhaps overly confident, he didn’t know she was one of the wildest of hawks to train. The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

10,000 Birds

If a baby bird at this stage is taken to a rehabber, it’s waste of the rehabber’s time and the chicks will miss valuable training from their parents. They give them warning calls, teaching them what is dangerous and when to hide. What human can point out a fox hidden nearby and how to avoid it? Owls are a little different.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

With no prior training they can make hooks from straight pieces of wire to obtain out-of-reach food. He never chased the rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, or deer who regularly visited. Over the years Jethro approached rabbits as if they should be his friends, but they usually fled. Jethro and the Bunny. Jethro the dog.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

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Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. Instead of embracing these fantastic programs, a typical reaction from people within the animal rights movement is to condemn and protest the act, because animals were going to die. The logic of this is ridiculous.