Umm, YEAH! And you get 150 tries. Could be better than shooting chickens out of cannons at airplanes.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/42916587.html
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/42916587.html
Being buried alive is humane?I love the part where they say the explosions collapse their tunnels and kill them....but in a humane way. God forbid we have some ground squirrels. I mean, we really should kill them all if they get in our way of walking.
Being buried alive is humane?
I don't understand why we simply accept that this planet is ours. They live here too, people need to understand what we're losing when we kill animals for no reason or a stupid one.
I'm just curious. Termites are animals. How about senseless killing of them when they set up shop in the walls of our house? And ants. Shall we give them the run of our pantry? Tomato worms like to eat our tomato crops. Let them?
Where do we draw the line of what is senseless killing and what isn't? If they are cute and furry they get the grand pass? We kill for food. We kill to help grow our food. We kill for health reasons. We kill because some animals threaten to ruin our possessions. We kill because some animals annoy us. We kill so we can enjoy recreational areas. We kill for sport.
But if they iz cyoote an furrie, how dare we?
[just trying to make people think a little]
I'm thinking that's a lot of killing.
I don't understand why we simply accept that this planet is ours. They live here too, people need to understand what we're losing when we kill animals for no reason or a stupid one.
The squirrels dig tunnels and holes that people can trip on or fall into, the agency said. They eat new tree roots, can spread disease and are spreading to neighboring yards.
The shock waves kill the squirrels
I wonder if relocating the squirrels is an option that has been explored..
I understand this argument. The "lesser" animals don't have a conscious experience of pain as we know it. Yet, they all have noniceptors (sensory cells that response to injurious stimuli), and these cells are all wired into neural circuits that produce behavioral responses of struggle, escape, defence, or other activities that are designed to minimize body damage and maximize either agressive responses or escape, in other words, to promote survival of the individual. Tissue damage in these animals is just as severe and reactive as in humans, we just don't think they have the same sense of agony. For this reason, I think the distinction of conscious experience of pain is just an argument of convenience for us, but of little biological substance other than that. And there is research on animal consciousness in sub-mammalian, even sub-vertebrate animals other than cephalopods.There is a long philisophical and psychological tradition of drawing the line--rather self-evidently--at animals with a conscious experience of pain, that being most birds and mammals, and some cephalopods.
It really is an interesting area of current research in which the biological work is going to have a major impact on the psychological and philosophical research/ideals (if the different areas pay attention to one another--not always a given). And insects are turning out to be one of the more neurobiologically sophisticated animal groups. Their sensory capabilities are incredible from a physical standpoint, but also from a neural processing one.I think is it a really but graded difference. I am confident an amoeba does have enough 'selfhood' to feel pain, and that for most insects it is negligible and all carrots it is nil.
The differences may be be 100% clear cut but they are meaningful.
I'm not sure that this is a good thing from an ecological standpoint. We're already having problems with people anthropomorphising animals and disregarding the delicate balance of the food chain. In nature, the cute little bunnies get eaten by the wolves. Get rid of the wolves so they don't eat the cute little bunnies and the cute little bunny population explodes. Then the not so cute anymore bunnies get into farmer's crops and cause other kinds of environmental damage. It's all about balance and maintaining that balance, not upsetting it. And respecting where each species fits in the ecosystem.It really is an interesting area of current research in which the biological work is going to have a major impact on the psychological and philosophical research/ideals (if the different areas pay attention to one another--not always a given). And insects are turning out to be one of the more neurobiologically sophisticated animal groups. Their sensory capabilities are incredible from a physical standpoint, but also from a neural processing one.