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Cooper’s Hawk Eating a Road-Killed Canada Goose

10,000 Birds

On the same day that I journeyed out to eastern Long Island to enjoy birding Shinnecock Inlet in the fog I also explored the fields of Riverhead, where large flocks of geese congregate and where a Yellow-headed Blackbird had been reported recently amid a large flock of icterids at a Buffalo farm.

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We Should Kill More Lions

10,000 Birds

There are times when acting in the conservation interest of a species or ecosystem means that the welfare of specific animals is compromised, which is a fancy way of saying that conservationists sometimes have to kill animals for the greater good. There is no solidarity among the big cats.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

10,000 Birds

They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).

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Kerkini in Winter

10,000 Birds

One year we found an impressively big calidus Peregrine, feeding on a Wigeon that it had killed. Kerkini’s most famous mammal is the domesticated Water Buffalo – large herds are kept around the lake. Such an abundance of wildfowl attracts Peregrines. Despite appearances, they are remarkably docile.

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Animals milked dry before illegal slaughter, investigation shows

AnimalEquality.net

Here’s what they found: In many instances, animals were milked one last time before being killed. In Deonar, several buffaloes attempted to… Source Between October and December 2023, investigators documented abuse at six facilities in Maharashtra and Kerala.

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On Objections to Slaughterhouses Not Sandwich Shops

Animal Person

The inaugural winner would be John Carbonaro, who found an article called " Slaughterhouse in Buffalo Wins Zoning Approval." Briefly: Zoning board in Buffalo unanimously approved plans for a slaughterhouse (as in, a place where chickens, goats, lambs and calves will be killed and chopped up).

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Big Cat Week!

4 The Love Of Animals

An entire lion pride battles a large buffalo to down the beast. A blood feud erupts when scavenging hyenas move in on the kill. Beyond the blood and gore lies a stark reality: Big cats kill to live and live to kill. Leopards creep from the bushes to hunt and retreat into the trees before falling prey to larger killers.

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