Raccoons feasting on baby Herons in Stanley Park
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I'v seen herons trying to lift off of the ponds full of baby frogs salamanders and fish, they'll eat many times thier own weight every day of every body elses babies.
Good hunting. I have offed lots of cats and racoons with the old 22. They are pesty no doubt about it.
The tall, long-legged great blue heron is the most common and largest of North American herons.
Juan, didn’t you say in one of your posts that they are endangered? Then how can they be the most common of North American Herons? Or are all the North American herons endangered?
Juan, didn’t you say in one of your posts that they are endangered? Then how can they be the most common of North American Herons? Or are all the North American herons endangered?
Eating babies is the most common thing in nature; it is one of the most natural things in the world. Some species even eat their own babies. Thus crocodiles eat their own babies (parents don’t eat their own offsprings of course, but they will eat somebody else’s offsprings). That is how the number of crocodiles is kept in check.
Even humans eat babies (not human babies, naturally). Baby octopus is quite a delicacy. Or baby oysters, suckling pig, there are so many examples.
Conservation Status: The Great blue heron population in North America has remained healthy, as it appears to suffer less from plume hunters and pesticides relative to other herons. The draining of wetlands and nearby urban development could threaten these birds but for the time being their numbers are stable. The exception is the coastal “Pacific” subspecies of Great blue heron, which is listed as a species “of special concern” by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
The momma crok eats her own same as the momma fish. Us humans are here only because we ate our own when we had to. Those old stories, and they are to be found in every culture, acurately describe the very bottom of the human experiance with cyclical catastrophy. There is no argument against eating babies except from the stuffed liberals in BC.:lol: Long pig was a necessary part of the human diet over much of the south seas, because of some mineral deficiency that escapes me just now. If you think that eating human babies is outside the human experiance, you better think again.
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Stealin, (well, borrowin) a thread here. Way back in the 70's, hunters in E.Ont. went forth in deer season. Say a group of 10. They might get 1 deer amongst them.
Big protests.......bla bla bla. WE demand DEER!!! More Deer!! Better Deer!!!
1. Buck only laws enacted. (to garner votes)
2. Later, doe tag draws.
Now there's so many deer, body and fender men are retirin to Fla. after only a few years on the job.;-)
Serious problem. Cars wrecked, people injured and killed. They wander out in the road (deer in the headlights), and their fur is such it absorbs light, making it almost impossible to see them until...................WHAP !!!
And NOW, the coyotes have increased in number exponentially, As they do enjoy venison, likewise their pups. Also, coyotes are killen dogs and cats and whatnot. PETA pissed off cause people want them gone.....i.e. dead!!, well not PETA, the coyotes...........probably PETA also.
Farmers have been whinin cause deers is eatin their crops. And, they ain't particularly happy about wild turkeys being re-introduced, since they eat seeds what fall on the ground.........the nerve!!:angry3: Some would believe they enjoy whinin. Not the turkeys, the farmers. Turkeys gobble intelligently.
Anyways, GOOD POINT, Taxslave. Managing wildlife is like squeasin a water-filled condom. It'll always bulge out someplace; probably embarassingly so.
Don't even get me started on Mike Hairass and the bears..........Jesus!!:angryfire:
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Maybe it's time to swallow some know-it-all pride and learn from the folks who lived with the land before Europeans came to wreck it all....
I'll have to second that. We've gone past the point of being able to return to harmony with nature.
What we outta do in Stanley park is:
put up climbing blockers on the heron's trees
deport tourists who feed the raccoons
What we outta do nationally:
make the raccoon a national symbol - like the beaver, this way no over zealous heron lover will attack those cute lil' guys.
Racoons nab all kinds of baby critters. Get used to it. Racoons flourish in areas where there are people because, intended or not, people feed them. When they aren't fed enough by people, coons revert back to predatory instincts.
The solution; either people quit breeding like fruit flies, or we figure out how to quit being a parasite.
BTW, most critters ARE cute, coons included.
The solution; either people quit breeding like fruit flies, or we figure out how to quit being a parasite.
BTW, most critters ARE cute, coons included.
