"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
reenews.net...
snip
No, the problem's not with people feeding birds or manatees or
whatever. What
happens is extra food usually is turned into extra babies. Extra babies
grow up
and increase the size of the flock. But, what the flock eats doesn't
necessarily
get bigger. So if people stop feeding all of a sudden some birds starve.
It's usually
the weaker ones that don't make it. This is just God's way. So if you have
compassion
for animals don't stop feeding them all of a sudden. You just murder them
doing that.
Overpopulation takes care of itself over time. Nature just works that
way. Even
if no people are feeding animals it still happens.
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Ya gotta ask yourself something. Are people part of nature or not? People
are
part of nature fer sure.

You are right. There is no question that the human race is part of nature
but we are simultaneously overpopulating the planet while medical research
is making every effort to defeat nature's efforts at natural selection.
Humanity has got it coming and I am quite glad that I surely will not be
around when it finally happens.

Edgar wrote:

You are right. There is no question that the human race is part of nature
but we are simultaneously overpopulating the planet while medical research
is making every effort to defeat nature's efforts at natural selection.
Humanity has got it coming and I am quite glad that I surely will not be
around when it finally happens.


Enforced euthanasia is a certainty in the near futurem I'm afraid...the
present day teens and young adults are a very have to have
generation...when they can't have anymore, they will seek the means to
get what they want..

"Edgar" wrote in message
...

"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in
message

reenews.ne
t...
You are right. There is no question that the human race is
part of nature
but we are simultaneously overpopulating the planet while
medical research
is making every effort to defeat nature's efforts at
natural selection.
Humanity has got it coming and I am quite glad that I
surely will not be
around when it finally happens.


No kids, Ed?

On 5-Feb-2007, "Ellen MacArthur" wrote:

What are they gonna do with the scraps
left when they clean fish? Or the extra bait they didn't use

I send it to the DNC or RNC

On 5-Feb-2007, katy wrote:

my concern is that they not just get them back
healthy but that they set up some program to teach these birds how to
survive without having to really on human offerings...

should be tried on humans on the VaBeach council first

Steve wrote:
On 5-Feb-2007, katy wrote:


my concern is that they not just get them back
healthy but that they set up some program to teach these birds how to
survive without having to really on human offerings...


should be tried on humans on the VaBeach council first

Personal opinion is that the world doesn't really need VA Beach...much
overrated and very dumpy in places....we avoid it....

"katy" wrote
Personal opinion is that the world doesn't really need VA Beach...much overrated and very dumpy in places....we avoid
it....



Very good. It makes for less beached whale reports... roflmao


Cheers,
Ellen

On Feb 5, 10:58 am, katy wrote:
We have a situation here down in VA Beach where the ASPCA is having to
do a large rescue job on baby pelicans that did not migrate south
becasue tourists fed them all summer and they didn't learn how to
hunt...there are over 100 starved juveniles that they're feeding 5 lbs
of fish to a day...my concern is that they not just get them back
healthy but that they set up some program to teach these birds how to
survive without having to really on human offerings...

Sounds like what the Canadian government did to the Inuit.

Just after Christmas we were at anchor in Tenacatita bay, commonly
known as "The Aquarium" because of all the great rocks to the west of
the bay where the fish flourish. The Mexican locals love to vacation
on this stretch of beach and it was a treat to intermingle with them
and watch them play on the playa.

What they (the locals) didn't know was that about a hundred pelicans
had figured out that this year the aquarium was bursting with life
under the water. We spent days sitting under the palapas watching the
families playing in the water fighting off the pelicans who were
trying to catch their dinner. The pelicans were dive bombing into the
water everywhere, inches away from people who were just trying to cool
off. We heard a lot of screams and men trying to drive them off but
the pelicans never hurt anyone and never went away.

What a show.

Barb
s/v Arabella
www.sailinglinks.com


On Feb 5, 8:41 am, "sailirc" wrote:
At the marina a man finished cleaning his fish , he was feeding all the
birds. Then he took his clean fish and
put it in his ice chest or cooler or what ever he had and started swatting
at birds. I was lmao watching the birds
just flood his boat.

--
NH_/)_www.sailirc.net

ladysailor wrote:
Just after Christmas we were at anchor in Tenacatita bay, commonly
known as "The Aquarium" because of all the great rocks to the west of
the bay where the fish flourish. The Mexican locals love to vacation
on this stretch of beach and it was a treat to intermingle with them
and watch them play on the playa.

What they (the locals) didn't know was that about a hundred pelicans
had figured out that this year the aquarium was bursting with life
under the water. We spent days sitting under the palapas watching the
families playing in the water fighting off the pelicans who were
trying to catch their dinner. The pelicans were dive bombing into the
water everywhere, inches away from people who were just trying to cool
off. We heard a lot of screams and men trying to drive them off but
the pelicans never hurt anyone and never went away.

What a show.

Barb
s/v Arabella
www.sailinglinks.com



On Feb 5, 8:41 am, "sailirc" wrote:
At the marina a man finished cleaning his fish , he was feeding all the
birds. Then he took his clean fish and
put it in his ice chest or cooler or what ever he had and started swatting
at birds. I was lmao watching the birds
just flood his boat.

--
NH_/)_www.sailirc.net



I remember standing on the pier at St. Pete FL one day and there was a
flock of pelicans...maybe about 30 of them, just hanfig out. Being a
bird type of person, I walked over to have a chat (those who know me
will tell you that I do indeed talk to birds)..thisfisherman started
yelling at me that they were dangerous and that I would get hurt.
pfffttt..they sidled up to me and made their squaky noises...they
weren't averse to me petting them, either...I didn't have anything to
feed them and probably wouildn't have because it was a fishing area and
getting fisher people angry is not a good thing...when I walked away,
they followed for a bit and then decided since I wasn't good for food
they'd go back and harass the guy that thought they were dangerous...