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The news has recently been filled with stories of massive bird die-offs, where hundreds or even thousands of wild birds suddenly fall from the sky, dead, for reasons that are mysterious. Some people -- reasoning that wild birds are like proverbial canaries in a coal mine -- panic and formulate doomsday scenarios that might explain these discrete events as being ominously related, predicting impending worldwide catastrophe.
Even though I was saddened, I wasn't surprised when I recently learned of yet another mysterious massive bird die-off. Except this particular die-off has important differences -- shocking differences that serve to shine a bright light onto truly callous and rapacious human behaviours directed towards wildlife.
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Comment: SOTT originally posted this article on January 26. Comments soon appeared underneath from user 'GrrlScientist', who wrote the following:
GrrlScientist: you stole my article
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:07 CST
this article was blatantly stolen from the Guardian, reformatted and images were added. if you don't remove this stolen material, the Guardian's lawyers will be calling on you. i hope your prison cell has always two inches of water on the floor and is unheated, scumsucking arseholes.
GrrlScientist: link removed?
Added: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:09 CST
oh how convenient, your little comment machine removes links to the orignal material that you STOLE. i'll try this again:
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It could have been the stress of being crammed into that small space for any length of time. It's unimaginably cruel. I've seen African Greys hemorrhage from their eyes when they are under extreme stress, so it does happen. I have no explanation for the collapsed lungs, though the lungs of a parrot are much more delicate than the lungs of a puppy, so it could have been something in the environment of the hold.