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Of course they can be saved, but they need to be attended to in a TIMELY matter. We have experienced oils spills before, you know. If the oil can be cleaned from their feathers, they can survive.
Of course they can be saved, but they need to be attended to in a TIMELY matter. We have experienced oils spills before, you know. If the oil can be cleaned from their feathers, they can survive.
Yeah, I guess your word is more reliable than that biological experts' with 20+ years of experience in dealing with these situations.
A recent TV report said that about 1% of the cleaned birds have a chance to survive.
Wait a minute, that's just one opinion. I'm not sure what to believe myself, but some animal organizations seem to think the birds can be cleaned and thus saved:
Of course they can be saved, but they need to be attended to in a TIMELY matter. We have experienced oils spills before, you know. If the oil can be cleaned from their feathers, they can survive.
What organizations are cleaning oil from bird feathers? Do tell. I will donate time immediately.
As I see more and more TV of the Brown Pelicans covered in oil and unable to move or fly, I am of the opinion that these birds cannot be saved but we should think about having a humane program to fly over and shoot them with shot guns. Normally I would find such a thing to be aborrent but I think that it would be more humane to kill them then to just let them drown in oil or wither away to a slow agonizing death. What do you think?
Why, according the NPR the pelican in question is doing quite fine once it was taken in.
OMG, what a photo op nightmare for the president. The government seen shooting the birds to ad insult to injury. People do not like to see that kind of thing. Why do you think they protray Palin as a killer when she hunts. No one can hunt or shot animals for any reason. Those who get their food at the market don't want to think of animals being killed even if that is how they get to eat. They think those animals come in shrink wrap when they were born.
Those saved during Valdez were contained in a smaller area. You could have people scattered all over the beaches on the Gulf and they couldn't help all the birds or other marine life. It's simply too large an area. What if the birds made it to an area where no one was waiting?
Many can't even make it to land. If they can be saved, yes of course. If they can be euthanized humanely, yes of course. But I fear many will just be out in the Gulf and perhaps putting them out of their agony by shooting them is the only way.
It all just sucks. 11 dead and countless birds and marine life dead or dying slow deaths.
what if these were human toddlers ? shoot em ? or euthanize, or faith healing ?
But, they are not human. They are even more delicate.
That is why so few will live.
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