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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
They are using baits with the poison 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) not cyanide. Read about it here - http://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-...-pest-control/ . 1080 baits were used for predator control (coyotes) here in the US but that has been stopped.
If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
Side track again but another example of how cruel nature can be!
Yep...egret tried to eat the snake.....
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egret with regret
one spotted my goldfish Bob who was under a thick net and under tree ferns (like mini palms)
the neighbour's cat (now my cat) spotted the bird and chased him out the yard and along the driveway , about 30 yards.
very funny except that in a previous backyard another egret ate 13 of my goldfish over a period of two years. I suspected the local cats till I spotted the bird taking the one before the last (Bob..)
Another story of narrow human centric human tinkering that went out of control because arrogant humanity fails to recognize a larger ecological whole. For all the patting on the backs the human species likes to constantly give ourselves no wonder the animal problem stories like the nutria often ignore the role of humans in making it occur. Just like the Golden brushy tail possums in NZ, mongoose in Hawaii, European rabbits in Australia, the nutria was another non endemic species brought to a place they din't naturally occur - N America - for narrow minded human centric reasons...the fur trade.
The bald eagle recovery - a success story of what humanity is capable of when they recognize a larger ecological whole by honestly considering and then changing their behavior.
We like to see the Bald Eagle as a majestic, proud, strong, courageous, bold, confident, attractive symbol with a pure white adult plumage atop its head and at it's tail....until you regularly see 4 of them at the Lee County FL Dump dirty, greasy, bloody, pecked at and hen bit, cowering, missing feathers relegated to being another scavenger eating garbage that is picked on and tormented by the larger stronger sea gulls also scavenging for scraps.
Up for grabs......
Yes it died from old age....
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I came home from a backpacking trip in 2008 and found a dead possum who got his teeth hung up in a suet bird feeder---with mighty Shunka looking on---Oops.
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Trail Miles: 4,927.6
AT Map 1: Complete 2013-2021
Sheltowee Trace: Complete 2020-2023
Pinhoti Trail: Complete 2023-2024
Foothills Trail: 0.0
AT Map 2: 279.4
BMT: 52.7
CDT: 85.4
That bird feeder is now a buzzard feeder...the nastiest sight and smell was a pair of coons that got inside a crab trap at low tide and got stuck...they drowned and took weeks to find the smell....only stunk at low tide....I can still taste it.....
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Is fly ash ethical from a process plant at spews toxins into the air so we can have all sorts of things? Electronic devices, rubber, chemical compounds that make just about everything in society...etc, etc.
Wow, I am so disappointed at the level of intelligence displayed in this thread!
It is clear that the video depicts a cruel act. The rest is justification. You may call it necessary, you may defend it in the name of ecology or whatever, but you cannot deny that the act itself is cruel. If you don't find it cruel it is because your moral compass is broken - plain as daylight.
And for those of you spouting about ethics, how about the simple "do unto others?" Place yourself in the paws of the possum. Would you like to have somebody hammer your brain into oblivion? No, really, would you?!
Something stinks to high heaven, when such bestial and inhuman behavior is accepted with such a cavalier attitude and commented on with such callousness!
reminds me of a riddle -
Q: how many rednecks does it take to eat a possum?
A: two, one to do the eating and the other to stop traffic