Critter News

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

For some bizarre reason (hopefully just ignorance), Reese Witherspoon has pissed off animal rights activists by purchasing and carrying around a purse made out of python skin. Python skinning is horrible, brutal and repulsive. And it's illegal for her to have it at least in the State of California. And she paid $4,000 for it.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2016

Wildlife lovers and rehabilitators, as always, tried to intervene. “I If you see a flyer such as this and you’re unfamiliar with wildlife, you can 1) believe the hundreds of people who write things like “I know for a fact a Barn Owl can carry off a 3-pound Chihuahua!” “I had no idea!” “How That’s why we need more trapping.” “I’m

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Sometimes it was just a matter of looking harder — walking a little further into the woods to get my first glimpse of a Blackburnian Warbler or being in just the right place at the right time to spot an elusive Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Fish and Wildlife Service. And living my life in the same place, I’d find them.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Yes, that's right. They found 3,640 pounds (1,655 kilograms) of snakes, mostly pythons, and 263 tortoises that weighed a combined 697 pounds (317 kilograms), said Col. Tags: wildlife smuggling cambodia wildlife trafficking reptiles tortoises snakes. In Cambodia. Luckily, they were alive and released back into the wild.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. Lucky him, right? He was also nearly strangled by a pet python that he kept.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 16, 2011

9): The Fish and Wildlife Service is right to propose a ban on the sale of nine large constricting snakes for the pet trade. There is a list of human victims of captive snakes, including a 2-year-old girl who was strangled in her crib by a pet Burmese python who had escaped from its enclosure.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

You soon adapt to the early mornings and early nights to coincide with the wildlife! The other snake was a Carpet Python lying on the trail at Kondalilla Falls. It was never actually cold and the joy of waking to birds and listening to birds occasionally during the night is what we were chasing. One lovely campsite!

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