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Baby and juvenile coyote skulls. Mixed dentition / double canines on the juvie!
Baby and juvenile coyote skulls. Mixed dentition / double canines on the juvie!
Lurcher, Saluki, Borzoi, Pharaoh Hound, Greyhound, & Whippet
The good news is that by taking them down I could check for bugs or damage. The bad news is that I have to hang all of these back up. The good news is that they are bug free at least.
The worlds second ever cloned Przewalski's horse has been born. Scientists are hoping to further save this species by using gene editing tools such as CRISPR.
Scientists are hailing the birth of the world’s second cloned Przewalski’s horse as an indication that cloning might indeed be a useful tool
I have six s.kunk skulls going up for sale tonight! One has some interesting bone growth in one infraorbital canal.
Western Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis proximus) - Lake County, Tennessee, 3/17/2023
A hoary fox (Lycalopex vetulus) in Emas National Park, Brazil
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I think people who think using poison is a good way to control pests should look up the effects of strychnine on wolves and other animals way back when.
Strychnine was a poison used in America in the 1800’s and part of the early 1900’s. I’ve wanted to talk about it for a while but major trigger warning if animal pain/injury/illness is upsetting to you.
Strychnine was bitter tasting and capable of extreme, and I mean extreme pain. “Wolfers”, which is what wolf hunters who poisoned carcasses were called in the 1850’s to the 1880’s, would kill prey animals (mainly bison or elk) and leave them as bait, lathering poison in creases of meat inside the animal for wolves to find later. In just Montana alone, it is estimated that over 100,000 wolves were killed annually during only the 1870’s.
So what’s so bad about strychnine? Well besides the fact that it poison doesn’t just target a single species, and it ended up killing millions of animals who just so happened to consume tainted meat, it also is quite possibly one of the most painful poisons (that’s just based of what I’ve heard), making it highly unethical. One account of a man finding a coyote poisoned by strychnine was where he watched it tear at its sides in a “fit”; vomiting, convulsion, and even paralyzation were common symptoms, all which this coyote experienced within minutes. Eventually succumbing to the poison, the man walked over and found deep gashes in the animals side. It was concluded that the pain was so immense the animal had tried to bite at its stomach since that’s where the pain was. This same account also mentions a grown man who was killed in roughly 5 minutes after drinking strychnine having mistaken it for alcohol. The man literally begged his friend to kill him.
Thankfully strychnine was banned along with Compound 1080 and cyanide to be used for predator control in 1972. I know some poisons are used against invasive species, but I still feel uncomfortable when I hear about it, even if it is deemed necessary.
If anyone wants more information on strychnine and wolf history in general I highly, highly recommend War Against the Wolf: America’s Campaign to Exterminate the Wolf by Rick McIntyre. I got all this information from said book, so if anyone has any inquiries I’d be happy to help pinpoint certain accounts. Just remember that there are some very graphic and very upsetting accounts of how wolves were/are treated throughout the US.
happy earth day. don’t forget that someone else’s outdoor cat is your indoor cat
A few years ago I picked up a cat at an apartment across town because tenants said the owner had threatened to shoot her. They’d been feeding this cat for five or six months. She’d just shown up one day, friendly as can be, and never left. I asked if anybody had tried finding an owner - they said no, but that she did have a collar on when she first showed up. They just assumed she was some outdoor cat or abandoned. The first thing I did the next morning was take her to the shelter to scan for a microchip, which she had. Her owner was so happy when we contacted her. Her cat had escaped while moving and she’d looked for her for months before resigning herself to the reality that her cat was probably dead. If those tenants had seen a friendly cat show up and immediately taken her to the shelter, it would have saved this person months of heartache, and this poor cat months of fear, ear mites, ticks, and fleas.
This is why I hate outdoor cats. Yes, they cause environmental damage. Yes, they’re going to be killed by cars or coyotes or assholes. But on a completely selfish level, I know that because of people’s normalization of outdoor cats if my indoor, microchipped cats ever got out there’s a good chance I’d never see them again. People see a loose dog running around and they assume it’s lost. They try to catch it or call the dog warden. People see a cat running around and they ignore it. Maybe they feed it for months and never even think that that cat might have someone out there worried sick.
So yeah, if I see an outdoor cat I will catch it and make sure it’s not chipped, and, in accordance to my local laws (make sure you check yours), I will feed that cat for three days, making it my (soon to be indoor) cat.
It does! You should check for a chip and/or collar (most vets will screen a cat for a microchip without any fee) to be sure they aren’t a missing cat, but other than that…If your cat never goes in your house, wears no identification, and isn’t cared for, it isn’t your cat.
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Source: How Much Do Cats Actually Kill?
I did the math to figure out how many furry forest critters my one hunter cat actually killed. Here are the numbers:
She’s 10 years old, but she’s spent the last year as an inside only cat, so let’s mark her down as 9 years old. As an indoor-outdoor cat, she averaged around 4 kills a week. According to this study, she was probably killing 16 per week. At least.
There are 52 weeks in a year, so my cat was killing around 832 moles, voles, rats, and mice per year.
At 9 years old, her kill count was most likely around 7,488.
I’m lucky that she only went after rodents and not endangered animals. With a kill rate like that, this one cat could’ve wiped out an entire species.
And that’s just one cat.
Sassafras, my Archangel x Lucerne cross with heterochromia
Since I scavenge bones, I usually don't have a large supply of mandibles and skulls. When animals get hit by cars or are hunted, those things, more often than not, get destroyed or taken in the process. If that doesn't happen, the scavengers tend to take the head away from the rest of the body. So I have been saving these up for a while now to be able to release 4 separate pairs of jawbone earrings and hangers! Some of them don't perfectly match since I didn't always find perfect sets. The two smaller pairs are from raccoons and the two pairs of hangers are from coyote.
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These will be in tomorrow's release (April 22nd) at 11am PST. Im working on the last of the photos and listings and will have previews up by tonight. I'll post in my stories once they are viewable.
Several years ago, my wonderful followers donated money to help me have my Texas rat snake, Harvey, articulated.
He has finally come home <3
Mule deer was fatally caught in the fence. There was actually an opening in the fence about 10 meters away, with deer hoofprints across it and a trail cam.
r/stupiddovenests features so many mourning doves which is insane to me i didnt know they were so bad at this. always thought the bad nests was a feral pigeon thing
