Why are Chillingham cattle protected while domestic cattle are milked and eaten?
don't be so antibovine
>>5129245Because wild cattle are endangered.
>>5130852Chillingham cattle aren't wild though. They're ferals, like mustangs. They descend from a domesticated cattle breed. The UK just likes to pretend they didn't kill off all their actual wildlife.Wild cattle would be species like gaur and banteng and tamaraw and the likely extinct kouprey.
>>5130959mustangs are also protected for the same reason. They're naturalized. In the absence of native wildlife, a near-fit being introduced can serve the same ecological niche. Beyond that, animals are only feral for the first generation, as after that they're just... wild animals.
>>5130959>The UK just likes to pretend they didn't kill off all their actual wildlife.I mean that's propably the point, if you already killed all of your megafauna you take what you can get and make sure you don't also exterminate the cattle that accidentally managed to take its place and established itself as the new wildlife
>do nothing>get labeled as the epitome of evil and deception by some random race of primates
>>5130612>retard completely destroys ecosystems the world over because his Abrahamic superstition told him to
>>5130612snakes hunt many pests and most of the people they kill live in Africa or India. First Worlders rarely ever die from snakebites.
Most fatal snakebites occur in rural agricultural regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. India accounts for the vast majority of global snakebite fatalities, followed by several other highly affected countries.The top countries and regions for snakebite mortality include:India: Reports approximately 50,000 to 60,000 deaths annually. This represents the highest absolute number of fatalities in the world, largely due to high population density and the widespread presence of the "Big Four" venomous snakes (Russell's viper, spectacled cobra, common krait, and saw-scaled viper).Pakistan: Averages around 2,000 deaths annually.Nigeria: Reports roughly 1,500 deaths per year, heavily concentrated in its rural farming communities.Bangladesh: Accounts for more than 1,000 deaths annually.Sub-Saharan Africa: Other heavily impacted nations include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and various countries in Western Africa (such as Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Ghana).Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>5130612st. patrick please fuck off
>>5130946Thanks Gepetto, Grok, Gemini, or Claude.
>Fur seals (actually sea lions) are sometimes spotted raping penguinsHow common is this for animals? Using animals smaller than you and of a different species to relieve your own sexual frustration
>>5129318Someone tell trump he’s a ukranian agent who thought the seal was putin going for a swim
>>5123737KWAB
>>5128592>Would rather go extinct than respect femalesB-b-b-based!
>>5055939Seals fuck penguins like god damned onaholes... They just turn those slutty retarded birds inside out with their massive mammalian COCKS and DISPOSE of their cum-drenched carcasses on the beach like the SEX TOYS that they are. They just go out into the ocean and eat the SHIT out of fish and squid, and then come back to FUCK penguins to death (literally). That is their entire LIFE-STYLE. Female seals need to get down on their flippers and fins just to BEG male seals to stop being gay murder rapists for 5 seconds, just so their species can procreate and sustain itself AND THE WORST PART IS.... THE PENGUINS DON'T EVEN TRY TO RESIST! THEY KNOW THEY'RE SLOWER THAN SEALS! SO THEY DON'T EVEN TRY TO RUN!! THE OTHER PENGUIN DON'T EVEN TRY TO HELP, THEY JUST STAND THERE WATCHING FROM 10ft AWAY, KNOWING THAT 'THEY' ARE SAFE FOR THE NEXT 5 MINUTES COZ 'THAT' SEAL IS NOW SEXUALLY SATISFIED . Technically it isn't even "predation" since these seals do not even eat the penguins they rape to death
>>5130745>>5130657unfathomably based
I think vultures are my favorite animal
>>5128273I think vultures are cute
>>5128273serves them right
>>5124068>eat corpse of animal that got shot>die from leadpoisoning>lay eggs beforehand, kids also die from leadpoisoningcondors suck
>>5124411practicians choice
>>5130818no, you suck
>As finally developed, the decoy consisted of a pool of water, leading from which are from one to eight curved, tapered, water-filled ditches. Over each ditch is a series of hoops, initially made from wood, later from iron, which diminish in size as the ditch tapers. The hoops are covered in netting. The combination of ditch and net-covered hoop is known as a pipe. On the outside curve of the pipe, for two-thirds of its length, there are overlapping screens>Wild ducks fly in to settle on the central pool; the decoy operator might maintain a resident population of tame ducks to encourage them to do this.[5] When a sufficient number have gathered, they are encouraged to swim down one of the pipes leading from the pool, where they are trapped. If the decoy has several pipes, then wind direction determines which one is used – it is important for the wind to be blowing approximately up the pipe so the decoyman remains downwind of the ducksRofl how confused must ducks be by this?
>Ducks are naturally curious and when they see a predator, such as a fox, they will keep it at a distance, but tend to follow it. The decoyman uses a dog, preferably a breed similar in appearance to a fox, to lure the ducks along the pipes. For this purpose in the sixteenth century in the Netherlands the kooikerhondje breed was developed. The dog appears between a gap in the screens and the ducks approach. It then appears at the next gap further along the pipe, and so on until the ducks are trapped at the end of the pipe. For a dog to be suitable for this task, it must not bark, and must be completely obedient to the decoyman. The decoy man quietly directs the dog using hand gestures while watching the progress of the ducks using peep-holes in the screens.I mean they must be so baffled by this, by how effort was involved just to catch them, there's dogs involved(specially bred in fact)-how deep does the conspiracy go? All this to catch little old me?The duck would never know what happened to them. It'd be like finding out all of history was a trap devised by aliens just to catch you
>>5129253that's not a duck decoy, that's a ritual.ia! ia!
>betrayed by their own kindTragic
What time is it?
>>5125010red crowned crane
>>4987489some fine specimens in this thread
Just took a walk, at like 2 in the afternoon, and watched a bird catch a worm. when will the morning people's lies end
Fucking dozens of millipedes have made my snake plant their home
Bro you let that drain out onto your floor? What is a plate?
>>5130813based millipedes
Introduce huntsmen.
Do you think intelligent social animals like elephants, orcas, and apes have any cultural memory of "the time before the humans came"?
>>5130860Probably not. I don't think their means of communication are complex enough to tell stories. Tho if there was one animal that i guess could be on that level it would be cetaceans
>>5130860There are probably individual whales living in Antarctica that are old enough to remember that
>>5130860no
Thoughts on the secretary Bird?
>>5007437yeah but-
>>4989049Frontier heard our prayers and gave us beautiful secretary birds in Planet Zoo 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6-yj80Guxg
So, Syros a Greek island is making international headlines by offering free accommodation (food, housing and all) for people who come caring for their outdoor cats. I don't get it. Why wouldn't those cats be able to survive without paid tourists?
maybe they ran out of birds
He cant do it alone!He needs your help.
>>5130586sorry pongo, Shekelstein Industries needs to build another palm oil plantation where your home used to be
>>5130586
They killed the Orangutang, right?
>>5130766it was found dead in his apartment with three bullets behind the head, the police says it was suicide
>>5130704Dude, can you cool it with the antisemitism?
I knew these creatures were demonic. A recent study assessed the hypothesis that killer whales (Orcinus orca) are preying on their own species. Researchers found two examples of severed killer whale fins bearing telltale marks of killer whale bites, both on Russia’s Pacific coast off Bering Island. Discovered just over a mile apart, the fins were from a juvenile killer whale and an adult female or juvenile male, respectively. The spacing and size of the fresh bite scars pointed to an act of killer whale predation. An obvious question is whether the bite marks were evidence of a fight rather than premeditated murder. But, “if it was just aggression, they wouldn’t bother to tear off the fin,” reasoned study author and whale biologist Olga Filatova in a press release. When killer whales hunt, they tend to go for the richer body parts like organs, leaving fins and other low-energy parts behind. So, the detached fins suggested an act of predation—a fin torn off to access the soft body parts.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70142
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>>5129779lel
>>5119010I always found these creatures to look super spooky. That white long oval shape by their eyes always looked to me like it was their eyes and they were that big. Of course I know now this wasn't the case but the color of these animals, the size, what we know of their intelligence, it all makes for such a spooky animal.
>>5130351their eyes do look creepy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-CEMOXiGPgPOV: the last thing you see as a seal
Keep seeing a pigeon with wire wrapped around its foot how should I go about getting it off.I see them infrequently enough that I can't just pick up supplies and go find them. Should I just keep scissors and a net(?) on me at all times. Please advise.
I can't believe there isn't a thread for our de(ea)r friendspost cervines and cervine accessoriesabsolutely no odd toed ungulates allowed
>>5129675Anon I think you're onto something here...
I have a fawn nesting in my backyard
>>5130185be kind and respectful to the little guy, he was just born into the world
>>5130185aww, it's bambi
https://youtube.com/shorts/F2FPEe4KbGc
