In that first one, is he talking out of his ass?
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This guy has been wandering around the neighborhood, it wandered in from the nearby marsh. I first saw it really close to the highway eating.
My neighbor sent me this photo when it wandered down our street.
The DNR, Department of Natural Resources, said itâs injured and wonât do anything, they said theyâre just waiting for nature to take its course. Seems like natural resources donât include animals.
We used to have a rehabber nearby but fines and criminal charges for helping animals scared them off.
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At first I thought it was a donkey. But it is a deer, isn´t it? It is a shame that they won´t take care of this animal.
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It is a deer.
I donât understand why a rehabber is not allowed to care for these animals. They keep saying there is an over population but most hunters I talk to always say things like âdidnât bag a deer this seasonâ and during hunting season I rarely see deer on vehicles like I used to.
In other words, if theyâre so overpopulated why is it so hard for hunters to get one?
But even if they donât want to save this poor guy, why not dispatch a professional to put it out of itâs misery before it gets hit by a truck?
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I see. They say there are too many deers, so they won´t waste resources treating these animals. But the population excess of deers are just ghost/ninja deers that nobody can seeâŚ
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Are deers considered nuisances like rats or pigeons? I was shocked when my sister told me that in some parts of Ireland bunnies have bad name as they eat garden plants.
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Theyâre overpopulated in and around Detroit metro, where itâs not legal to hunt. Hunters keep going up north, but the deer all migrated south. Canny critters.
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When humans build new neighborhoods in areas that used to be more wild, the fact that wildlife now encroaches on their flowerbeds is perceived as being an overpopulation.
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Rabbits are not indigenous to Ireland and were introduced to by the Normans. I suppose 800 years or so is a long enough time to be considered native though. Native predators have certainly adapted the presence of rabbits.
Their population is rarely a problem as an agricultural pest these days but the burrows they dig can cause injury to cattle so farmers will trap or shoot them.
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Where is the cutoff date, though, and what about species that introduced themselves?
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âHi there! Iâm new to the neighborhood and just wanted to introduce myself. Iâm Snakehead, a fish with suprabranchial organs that allow me to breathe on land and migrate to areas where I have no natural predatorsâŚâ
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Situations like New Zealand and birds.
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I suppose a parrot would be more likely to introduce itself to a human being than a fish wouldâŚ
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Sounds like Ireland could use some of those Florida pythonsâŚ
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This is the main reason I still believe that Fernandina Island in the Galapagos is one of the most amazing places Iâve ever been.
It basically looks like Mars. Itâs the youngest island, at âonlyâ about a million years old, and because of its distance from everything there is barely some lichen on the island, and certainly no actual animals or birds. A million years, and itâs almost as pristine as when the underwater vent erupted to create it.
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This brown mink made a beeline for us from about 200 yards away. Loud noises, even a lawn mower, wouldnât scare him off. So, Iâve contacted Animal Control, because it looked a little like there was white foam in his mouth.
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