10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

On another trip, this time to Slovakia, I heard wolves howling, a wonderfully spine-tingling sound. No, not an Arctic Fox, but a Red Fox in Arctic Finland I may not have seen many wolves, but I have seen lots of foxes (or what I should perhaps call red foxes). At the time we were looking, without success, for White-backed Woodpeckers.

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Critter News

APRIL 30, 2012

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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Culling Wolves Sweden Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2015

I saw these individuals in Imfolozi Game Reserve, where they were hanging around a kill. I was told by some researchers that in Botswana trackers watch for this species when looking for Painted Wolves (or African Wild Dogs) as they follow packs to snatch up prey and scraps.

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Critter News

MARCH 17, 2009

of Fish and Game hopes to kill up to 328 wolves in order to protect caribou calves. Tags: wolves. The Alaska Dept. The LA Times Greenspace blog has the story.

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Critter News

AUGUST 29, 2008

In addition to killing wolves from airplanes, Palin supports paying cash to those that cut off their left leg and bring it in for a cash prize. Tags: Palin wolves. How's that for state socialism?

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Critter News

OCTOBER 25, 2008

OK, it doesn't have a lot to do with "critters" per se, other then the fact that it deals with That One that approves of killing wolves and polar bears. And it's really really funny. And hey, the title also uses the word vet in TWO different ways that don't mean veterinarian.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

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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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. Hare suspects that the evolutionary pressures that turned suspicious wolves into outgoing dogs were similar to the ones that turned combative apes into cooperative humans. Evolving Gifts.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

This was truly an incredible encounter we had been so, so fortunate to witness; a full Snow Leopard hunt from beginning to end including the take and kill. The red line follows the chase with the yellow dot indicating the first failed attack and the red dot being the final kill position. Wolves can be encountered anywhere in the park.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. ” There are amazing stories here. The survival of the Short-tailed Albatross, which once numbered in the millions, is simply amazing.

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

To the Editor: Soon after I read Gary Steiner’s article, my wife asked me to kill a spider, which I did. We kill so many living creatures when we build a house, construct a road, drive down that road or just walk on a path. But even then if we were to survive we would have to kill some animals in self-defense. Wolves eat sheep.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

There’s always a chance that we could ingest something bad for us, something that might even kill us – a peril we face anytime we swallow anything, in fact. Drinking is an act of risk and vulnerability, though it’s such an everyday part of our existence that no one thinks of it that way.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In his piece on state agencies, The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Wolves , Mr. Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. They have hunted together before, this pack of sky wolves.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

They are also threatened by cultural beliefs that lead to killing them because they’re seen as harbingers of death and bad luck. Wolf Lichen is rich in toxic vulpinic acid and in the old days was boiled up with meat and used to poison wolves. They are also hunted.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Bad for wolves, bad for America. Tags: Palin wolves. We wrote about it here before Palin became the Republican VP nominee, now people like Andrew Sullivan are catching on to her cruel policies as governor.

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Wolves Killing America Tagged 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” One is defined as catching or killing and the other as keeping from injury. Why would any human being think that killing a Giraffe ( Giraffa ) is a good idea? But I digress.

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