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Swedish King Wants to Cull Country's Wolf Population

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Wolves kill elk - But King Gustaf wants to kill the elk so he wants to get rid of wolves And why does he want to do that? Unfortunately, he's also one of the presidents of the World Wildlife Fund whose Swedish chapter supports the maintenance of the wolf population. From Wildlife Extra.

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On Egypt's Pig Cull

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I received an e-mail from the well-meaning Wendy at Compassion in World Farming (which I find an odd combination of words) regarding Egypt's pig cull and asking me to send my protest to the Egyptian Government. CIWF wants to "halt the brutal killing of these animals, and to ensure that they can be assured of a humane future."

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Seabird City Spectacular

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After being killed they were plucked and salted for consumption during the winter. Bempton is the only mainland colony of Gannets in the British Isles; all the other colonies are on islands. The largest colony is on the island of St Kilda, far off the coast of West Scotland. There the young birds were once harvested by the islanders for food.

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Wolf Killing in Idaho Under Scrutiny

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The state government is as crazy about wolf killing as she is. But a US District Court Judge has granted a hearing on stopping the killing to wolf advocates represented by Earthjustice. Montana is another state where wolf killing is allowed. Tags: cull montana idaho wolves.

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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

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The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. Nothing wrong with that, so long as the sources are credited, as they are.)

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Hornbills of Sabah

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The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.

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Nature is Tough

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After all, what good is getting a kill if in doing the killing the predator is injured? Peregrine Falcons are excellent at culling the weak. Of course, injured animals have a very difficult time making it in the wild. This is why predators are generally unwilling to attack anything that has a chance at all.

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