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Snow Leopard hunt by Adam Riley (INDRI Ultimate Wildlife Tours)

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Our Snow Leopard sat, quite Cheetah-like, before stalking off and once again rolling in the gravel, apparently an indication of the desire to mask its scent before a hunt. We could not believe our fortune, could we really be treated to a Snow Leopard hunt – this was beyond our wildest dreams?

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further.

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Falakhe’s Story

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And the morning before the Mkuze pack of Painted Wolves, or African Wild Dogs, had been very close to one of the park’s few Lions, as far as tracking collars had told. And the two species were not inclined to get on, by which I mean that Lions will kill other large predators including Painted Wolves.

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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? Because every year the good king runs an elk hunt in Sweden, along with his son Prince Carl Philip. Yet to hunt the elk, he himself uses hunting dogs. From Wildlife Extra.

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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

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I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. On another trip, this time to Slovakia, I heard wolves howling, a wonderfully spine-tingling sound. They will also kill any water birds they can capture, from Kingfishers to Mallard.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

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This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 ” Many.

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Sarah Palin Scares Me

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Anyone who challenged w's environmental policies as too liberal is a true hater of anything she can't eat or kill for fur. Keep women in their place and remember to hunt and kill the wolves and any other animal that gets in their way. I also believe that there will be absolutely no thought behind any of her behavior.

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