Habitat destruction. Pesticides. Cell phone towers. Your cat. Now scientists have discovered that a large bat, the giant noctule, preys on migrating songbirds in Europe. It is tough to be a bird.
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6 comments:
i feel for ya. as an ornithologist, birds are practically your kids. but ...
stanley temple is a doofus and he's the one who has really set off this "sylvester is killing all the widdle tweety birds!" witch hunt. he [and a colleague?] did some back-of-the-envelope calculations, ostensibly for a research proposal, and came up with cat-caused bird genocide. it got published in some second-rate [fourth-rate?] journals and has been used as the starting point for theses and dissertations and justifications for cat hunting, all of which have been questionable [that i've taken the time to read so far].
ps. i'll take some time to look at lepczyk more closely before condemning him out of hand.
Well, if the kitties have to be herded first, they'll probably be just fine.
K
I love the kitties, too, but they just don't belong outside. A billion years of evolution have turned them into relentless killing machines--cute, loving killing machines, but killing machines nonetheless.
goddamnit, it's what I hate about lists.
Mental image for you:
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please keep writing the blog. we need someone hitting the huck. zonker
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