20060912 - Misfit savages a vole - 106-0652 - Welcome To The Jungle

A few nice video of animals images I found:

20060912 - Misfit savages a vole - 106-0652 - Welcome To The Jungle

Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
"He'll never see me coming! I'm totally hidden! Like The Predator!"

Here Misfit is pretending that he is in the jungle, hunting his prey from the cover of the underbrush.

For video of Misfit attacking the vole: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnhJWHpB1d4

Misfit, vole.
close-up.

September 12, 2006.


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Sarah Palin - Caribou Hunt

Image by smiteme
Photo via Grizzly Bay by way of Kinship Circle.

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Caption: Sarah Palin showing off her kill.

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9/27/08: Palin’s Pro-Death Platform On Animals

Next Thursday, October 2, Washington University in St. Louis hosts the vice presidential debate featuring Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden. With the spotlight on vice-prez nominees, you have a great opportunity to send comments to newspapers, blogs and discussions. Let voters know about Governor Sarah Palin’s relentless assault on wildlife and environment.

Whatever your political affiliation, Palin is clearly NOT the candidate for animals....and animals are the focus of this list.

Below are talking points and ideas for your comments, but NEVER COPY AND SEND A FORM LETTER to a newspaper or other media. As soon as an “organized campaign” is suspected, comments are discarded.

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SARAH PALIN: THE CLIFF NOTES

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Top Facts Everyone Must Know About Sarah Palin
www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm



1) She opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest (even child victims).

www.naral.org/elections/election-pr/pr08292008_palin.html

2) She offered a bounty of 0 for each front leg of freshly killed wolves.

www.alternet.org/environment/97207

3) As Wasilla’s mayor, she made rape victims pay for forensic evidence kits.

news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?articleid=1118416...

4) She advocates aerial hunting of wolves and bears even though Alaskans voted twice to ban the practice.

www.hsus.org/wildlife_abuse/news/aerial_hunting_alaska_08...
www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=8851174

VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T85cOGc8L0

5) She strongly supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/510779.html

6) She used 0,000 in state money to fund propaganda for aerial hunting.

“0,000 approved to educate Alaskans about wolf killing”
dwb.adn.com/front/story/9253882p-9168881c.html

7) She champions big oil, with a campaign slogan "Drill, baby, drill!"

blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/09/04/palins-poli...

8) She wants creationism taught in public schools.

www.thelangreport.com/religion-or-lack-of/sarah-palin-wan...

9) She believes man-made global warming is a farce.

blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/palin-global-wa....

10) She opposes listing the polar bear as an endangered species because it might limit oil exploitation.

www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN214509782008...

11) As Wasilla’s mayor, she tried to fire the city librarian because the librarian refused to censor books.

mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking...
www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/515512.html

12) She supports the Alaskan Independence Party which seeks independence from the United States.

www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-aip3-2008sep03,0,6399...

13) She is presently under investigation in Alaska for abuse of power.

www.ktva.com/ci_10026165

14) She opposes listing the Cook Inlet beluga whale as endangered.

www.defendersactionfund.org/newsroom/sarah_palin.html#ESA

15) She has no international experience and obtained her first passport just last year (2007). Oh yea, but she can sort of see Russia when she looks really hard out her window.

www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/us/politics/30veep.html

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SARAH PALIN: NO FRIEND TO WOLVES

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Brenda Shoss’ Letter to the Editor
DO NOT COPY THIS LETTER
DO use it to jumpstart ideas...and send comments to your paper, news blog...

Aerial killing of predators: fair conservation or inhumane?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fair conservation or inhumane? Aerial wolf hunts have nothing to do with conversation and everything to do with boosting moose and caribou populations for Alaska’s lucrative hunting industry.

A hunter in a low-flying aircraft aims his assault rifle at terrified wolves with no camouflage against a backdrop of white snow. A same-day airborne hunter harasses wolves till exhausted, then corners them in snow banks and fires away at close range. Is this inhumane? Duh.

In 1972, Congress enacted the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to ban use of an aircraft to “shoot for the purpose of capturing or killing any bird, fish, or other animal” or to “harass any bird, fish, or other animal.” Yet Governor Palin, and previous Governor Frank Murkowsi, permit private hunters to slaughter wolves from aircrafts under the guise of “conservation.”

Alaskan voters passed ballot measures in both 1996 and 2000 to ban aerial and land-and-shoot wolf hunts. In one of many polls (this one conducted by Dittman Research Corporation) responders, including hunters, disapproved of aerial predator-control as a system to augment moose and caribou numbers.

Ultimately, politicians have failed to produce a definitive scientific assessment that justifies aerial wolf hunts. In fact, many studies attest to the valuable predatory role wolves play in an ecosystem. Wolves help sustain caribou and moose herds by eliminating old, feeble, and sick individuals and fortifying gene pools over time. Aerial gunning, on the other hand, has yet to undergo site-specific studies to measure its effect on local ecosystems.

Sarah Palin calls hovering in planes to blow away wolves a “safari.” I call her bounty offer of 0 for a front leg of a freshly killed wolf “sadistic.” But Palin is determined to eke out every last penny before her state’s fish and wildlife die out. This summer, Palin poured 0,000 of taxpayer money into her mission to defeat Measure 2 -- an initiative to ban aerial wolf hunts as sport. Those of us who dispute sportsmen bombing wildlife from planes simply don’t “understand rural Alaska.”

Sarah Palin is the one who fails to understand that violence against nature is not an effective campaign tool. Most voters are savvy enough to oppose Palin’s pro-death platform on animals and environment.

— Brenda Shoss
11:01 am September 27, 2008

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Sarah Palin’s Family Album

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20051217 - Misfit misc - 100-0041 - Misfit attacks a cozy

Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
YouTube videos of kitten Misfit playing: first, second.


Misfit attacks a Qualtrax cozy

Misfit, cozy.
December 17, 2005.


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Jungle City Edinburgh 022

Some cool endangered species of animals images:

Jungle City Edinburgh 022

Image by byronv2
These are all part of the Jungle City organisation, which is debuting in Edinburgh for a couple of months and will move to various cities around the world. There are statues all decorated by different artists all over the place (there's a map on the site), small versions are available to buy as are the actual full size statues, to raise money for wildlife charities and to raise awarness of some of the magnificent species we're endangering

www.jungle-city.org/

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Image by gwoodford
The late Jama is one of the only King Cheetahs anywhere in the world that can be handled. Although Jama is the same species as a normal Cheetah, a recessive gene gives him a specially striking appearance. Instead of the normal spots, he has four stripes down his back. longer fur along these stripes makes this quite a striking appearance.
Lucky visitors were able to have hands on contact with this extremely rare and beautiful animal.

NYC - Bronx - Bronx Zoo: Jungle World - Black panther

Some cool endangered species of animals images:

NYC - Bronx - Bronx Zoo: Jungle World - Black panther

Image by wallyg
The Leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the four 'big cats' of the genus Panthera. Originally, it was thought that a leopard was a hybrid between a lion and a panther, and the leopard's common name derives from this belief; leo is the Greek and Latin word for lion (Greek leon, λέων) and pard is an old term meaning panther. In fact, a "panther" can be any of several species of large felid. In North America, panther means cougar and in South America a panther is a jaguar. Elsewhere in the world a panther is a leopard. Early naturalists distinguished between leopards and panthers not by colour (a common misconception), but by the length of the tail — panthers having longer tails than leopards.

A black panther is a melanistic leopard. These have mutations that cause them to produce more black pigment (eumelanin) than orange-tan pigment (pheomelanin). This results in a chiefly black coat, though the spotted pattern is still visible. especially from certain angles where the effect is that of printed silk. A black panther is able to hunt and kill animals outweighing them by more than 1,350 pounds but this is rare because of competition from tigers and lions.

Black leopards are reported from most densely-forested areas in south-western China, Burma, Assam and Nepal; from Travancore and other parts of southern India and are said to be common in Java and the southern part of the Malay Peninsula where they may be more numerous than spotted leopards. They are less common in tropical Africa, but have been reported from Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia), the forests of Mount Kenya and the Aberdares.

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The Bronx Zoo, located within the Bronx Park, is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, comprising 265 acres of parklands and naturalistic habitats and home to over 4,000 animals. Focused on conservation, it opened on November 8, 1899, with 22 exhibits, 843 animals. The zoo's origins date back to 1895, with the establishment of the New York Zoological Society (NYZS), renamed Wild Conservation Society (WCS) in 1993. Only the outer structure of the World of Reptiles remains much as it was in 1899. With the 1941 opening of African Plains, the Bronx Zoo was one of the first U.S. zoos to move away from cages and exhibit animals in naturalistic habitats.

Jungle City Edinburgh 01

Image by byronv2
big cat in Princes Street Gardens

These are all part of the Jungle City organisation, which is debuting in Edinburgh for a couple of months and will move to various cities around the world. There are statues all decorated by different artists all over the place (there's a map on the site), small versions are available to buy as are the actual full size statues, to raise money for wildlife charities and to raise awarness of some of the magnificent species we're endangering: www.jungle-city.org/

Speke's Gazelle (Gazella spekei)

Image by 5of7
Speke's Gazelle (Gazella spekei) is the smallest of the gazelle species. It is confined to the horn of Africa where it inhabits stony brush, grass steppes, and semi deserts. Severe habitat fragmentation means it is now impossible to assess the natural migratory or nomadic patterns of G. spekei. Its numbers are under threat, and despite an increase in population it was announced by the IUCN in 2007 that its status had risen from vulnerable to endangered. Captive population is maintained, and the wild population exists in the lower ten thousands. This photo was taken at the Phoenix Zoo on March 12, 2011.