Animal Behavior

I’ve never been able to watch any animal documentaries where they kill each other.
I find it disturbing and also prefer the Disney version 🙂
 

Keesha:
I've posted before, 'Run little antelope, run...but it is too late, the predators
sneak up close enough to catch the antelope before they charge.

That site where the wildebeest have to cross the river and the croc's are waiting for them; won't watch it. Yet, it is part of how species survive.

It is a hard world and we mimic that behavior: killings with malice, killings without a reason.
 
RATTLESNAKES, RABBIT, DEER & COYOTES
Part one, may not get back to parts 2, 3, 4,....

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Sister and spouse rented a ranch house form an old rancher.
I asked, 'Can I ride the horses?'
'No horses son, got one, he’s as old as I am. He’s over twenty, forgot just how far past twenty, but he’s done his work, he’s a friend of mine- retired like me.
You’ll can kill my rabbits, spot lightning ’s best I’d appreciate it. Don’t be shooting my deer, that my cash crop. Watch the corral, never did know why, but the mommy rattlers hatch their babies there. Don’t be going out at night without a light (reference to rattlesnakes) Lots of critters to shoot, the coyotes are sneaky, shoot ‘um if you see ‘um. just don’t be shooting my deer.
‘I killed a lion (Cougar) back in the…Oh, I was just a kid. Think it was in the 1920’s. ,maybe earlier.. no one’s seen a mountain lion in in the last fifty years’.
‘Got a spotlight in the shed you can use (for spotlighting rabbits), just don’t be shooting my deer.’

Rabbit killing:
It is legal to spotlight rabbits.
You need a pick-up truck-check
You need a four prong ladder rack-check
You need a shotgun-check
It is best to spotlight rabbits with a crew of four,
One to drive the pickup
One to man the spotlight
Two or three to kill the rabbits
It's not sport, it is a massacre, but needed.
Rabbits burrow down, eat the grass from the roots. The grass is sparse to start with, critters that damage the grass have to be destroyed.
Rabbits increase at a rate that makes it impossible
to eradicate them. (see post at top).
Part II
I was not interested in killing rabbits frozen by a spotlight, but my brother-in-law had two ‘big-game hunter’ friends named Mac and Chicken (his nickname, a poor choice). They got wind of ‘free killing,’ had a frenzy until brother-in-law agreed to take them rabbit killing. Neither I or brother-in-law, were enthuastic, but friends being friends… we had to take these ‘deer killers,’ out to shoot rabbits.

I manned the spotlight while Mac and Chicken went bang, bang, bang.
The rattlesnakes were so dense they performed a chorus of rattling as we drove around the pasture. I immediately had second thoughts.

Problem, you’re not supposed to leave the dead rabbits lying where they were shot. This provides the rattlesnakes and coyotes with a free meal.
The rattlesnakes are problem #2, they are so numerous the cattle are constantly being bit.

So, you drive the pickup as close to the dead rabbit as possible, get on the running board poke around with a stick to stir any rattler playing possum; then carefully reach down and pickup the rabbit throw him into pickup bed and sally forth.

Mac and Chicken were in their glory, gouging on killing rabbits, telling lies about long forgotten hunts...'Watch this.'
I did take a turn at killing the rabbits, but found it boring.
Mac and Chicken shot rabbits, skunks and shot at one coyote, but he stayed out of shotgun range.

They killed 30-40 rabbits when I told them, ‘I quit. I’m not going to get on the ground, where I can't see, in an area filled with rattlesnakes.

We went to the house, brother-in-law wanted the rabbits cleaned and eaten. Mac and Chicken turned up their noses-‘We’ll clean a few, but we came to shoot’um not clean ‘um.
We kept six or so, cleaned up, put them into freezer,
Mac and Chicken took the rest, stated they would clean and eat them-you know they didn’t.

We jumped a few herd of deer, Mac and Chicken went nuts, ‘Get close, run up on ‘um’ fast, so we can get one.’
They were told, that is not part of the deal; we told the rancher we wouldn’t kill his deer. They were sorely disappointed.
That ended our rabbit killing for a few months, but Mac and Chicken didn’t have anything to kill until deer season. The nagged and nagged, ‘Us go kill sompin.’
We mentioned to the rancher that there were two men in town rabid to kill rabbits.
He was all for it, ‘Tell ‘um to come on!’
So, Mac, Chicken and two of their friends showed up to ‘kill rabbits’.
B-I-L told me, ‘Slip out to the pickup, make sure they don’t have any deer rifles with them.
I did, they didn’t.
They drove out to the pasture, an housr’s worth of bang, bang, bang…

We were watching TV, a car came sneaking up to the house, no lights, obviously up to no good. B-l-L got his deer rifle, handed me the shotgun said wait.
Soon there was a knock on the door, ‘Get behind the door, when I nod jerk it open.’
I did, B-I-L stuck his deer rifle in the gut of the person knocking.
It was the game warden- Scared the hell out of him. Once he got his breath, he said, ‘Neighbor’s said sounded like a war out here. I had to come out.

Sister made him coffee, let sit until he got his composure back.
Mac, Chicken and the two other men arrived when the game warden was present. The game warden was not pleased that Mac was one of the ‘rabbit killers.’ ‘He’s got a reputation for poaching, if he comes back out here, you need to watch him close.’
It was a long time ago, but I still remember the bleached expression on the game warden’s face. It lasted for some time.
 

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The ice folds are melting in the Artic, Polar Bears can no longer go out on the ice packs to hunt seals. Their only food supply is penguins; they are decimating the penguin population.
 
Heck, I've been fooled by phony stories so many times. Now, I have to scour the internet and try to find as many versions of a story as possible. That way I'm only fooled about 50% of the time. 🤪🙂
 
You and me both, this partial news, fake news, we are being bamboozled. How long was this occurring before I became aware?

Got the cheapie package on Direct TV "RT' is a totally owned Russian network, broadcasting news programs 24 hours a day.
I've watched it a few times, it's about 10% slanted, but add that up: if you were a 'chronic viewer' how distorted would you become?

I watch the French News, their somewhat reliable about U.S. news, slant the hell out of their own national news.

I suppose BBC is still the best; their are a lot of us that have figured U.S. National News, broadcast by the networks are hooey!
As far as those one hour commentaries, on several satellite stations, masquerading as new-hooey!

There are newsworthy events worldwide, our network stations ignore them. BBC gives you a much broader or worldwide news.
Problems in other nations have a way of becoming our problems, taking America by surprise (no they were on-going events, just not considered newsworthy.) Ghee!
 
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