How can you take responsibility for a Magpie who raids nests as a hobby? Wildlife supporters always manage to omit the fact that birds raid other birds nests and destroy the eggs. But no...blame the cat when birds do it mostly themselves and always have done. @Daisy33 🙂 I think it's true.
You're missing the whole point. The magpie is wild and part of the natural ecosystem ... it feeds on eggs and nestlings in order for its own species to survive. That's how ecology works.
Cats are domesticated and are not part of the natural ecology of an area and they are fed by their owners. They do not need to kill birds in order to survive.
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Actually Dove, there are many examples of brutal behaviour in nature which do not enhance ecology...it is just that, nature, instinct perhaps as Hazel said.
You can take the animal out of the wild, but you can't take the wild out of the animal.
Absolutely not so Dove. There are examples of gang rape in birds, murder in baboons, cannibalism in fish...mankind has not interfered here. And there seems to be no reason for these things to happen.
You can take the animal out of the wild, but you can't take the wild out of the animal.
so if you cat comes into my garden and my dog kills it, can we just shrug our shoulders together and blame it on instinct?
Absolutely. Happened to a cat we owned. My family had moved her from our home in Africa, quarantine in England, lived 16 years in the Americas. She was killed by guard dogs. Sad though.
Absolutely not so Dove. There are examples of gang rape in birds, murder in baboons, cannibalism in fish...mankind has not interfered here. And there seems to be no reason for these things to happen.
and apparently there are examples of extreme anthropomorphism in humans...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Absolutely not so Dove. There are examples of gang rape in birds, murder in baboons, cannibalism in fish...mankind has not interfered here. And there seems to be no reason for these things to happen.
But you're ascribing a human moral code to the natural activities of animals ... that's nonsense.
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Errumm, not quite true. I think murderer was mentioned at one point...unless, of course...
Cats are domesticated and are not part of the natural ecology of an area and they are fed by their owners. They do not need to kill birds in order to survive.
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You can take the animal out of the wild, but you can't take the wild out of the animal.
It it only needs enhancing when mankind has interfered.
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Sad though.
and apparently there are examples of extreme anthropomorphism in humans...
anthropomorphism...easy for you to say.
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