The state of #Alaska recently killed more than 100 brown #bears, gray #wolves, and other important #carnivores — shooting them from #helicopters in a misguided attempt to boost the #Mulchatna caribou herd for hunters.
Each year the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gives Alaska millions of dollars for state wildlife management projects. By law, that money can only go to states that have demonstrated their commitment to wildlife conservation.
It's still #Caturday so I can share this purrty Leopardus captured by our camera traps in Nicaragua. I am so grateful to the donor whose gift helped us to keep these cameras going over the past year. #generous#payitforward#beauty#nature#carnivores
So basically, this is a sci-fi fantasy world with intelligent/sapient animals. Not anthros like in Zootopia, just regular animals that can all talk to each other, form societies, and develop science and technology. Obviously, predation is a massive, central issue to this world, being that it was the primary driving force of all...
One possibility I don’t see here, as portrayed from both the predator- and prey-perspectives. Tentatively I’d call it “Pragmatism”, “Utilism”, or maybe “Mutualism”:
“We understand that other species shouldn’t be expected to give up their lives just for our consumption. However, death comes for us all anyhow, and we shouldn’t be expected to deny our own nature either. Once they are already passed, so long as it is safe, their remains should be sent to us for consumption. That way, no herbivore suffers nor do we starve.”
“It is not the fault of a Carnivore that they are born as such, any more than it is our fault we are born as we are. Neither of us should be expected to give up our lives or well-being for the benefit of others, but once we’ve passed away? Flesh is just flesh, not life. We should accept that our bodies should be turned over to the greater good of cooperation between our clades.”
(Notably, I am aware that this ideology would require many, many more prey than predators, possibly rendering predators a disliked minority in any society that practiced it.)
Some beautiful European carnivores - wolverine, grey wolf, Eurasian lynx, and brown bear. We once had all these animals right here in the UK. All are now extinct here thanks to humans. :( #animals#wildlife#carnivores#WolfWednesday
Really great to see Nina Eydelman of Animal Protection of New Mexico standing up to ranchers:
“Wolves belong in the #wild and each individual wolf is essential to the species’ survival. Ranchers who choose to place their domestic cattle on our #PublicLands should have to accept the conditions that come with those public lands, including the presence of healthy populations of native #carnivores. #Wolves were there first.”
The major political views/philosophies/ideologies about predator-prey relationships that I have come up with so far in my world inhabited by intelligent animals. Can you come up with any others?
So basically, this is a sci-fi fantasy world with intelligent/sapient animals. Not anthros like in Zootopia, just regular animals that can all talk to each other, form societies, and develop science and technology. Obviously, predation is a massive, central issue to this world, being that it was the primary driving force of all...