sandymere
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Hope she makes a good recovery, I've carried a few and remember the burning arms and shoulder with the sweat freezing as it forms..
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We need some real evidence for and against with a realistic review of the quality of the evidence. For me this must include, Road kill figures with localities to track populations and species. Verified sightings ie camera traps or similar evidence, again with locations to track populations, need not be a particular fields but within a local area. Planned interventions ie setting camera traps on kills, for proof of populations and species identification. Areas of stock predation, numbers, targeted species etc with locations, again to track populations. etc etc
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The only one stifling debate is you with petty insults and veiled threats. The rest of us are all looking at the evidence and forwarding sources to help people make an informed opinion.
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Rise in Iberian lynx road deaths speeds up protection plans | Spain | EL PAÍS English Edition ENGLISH.ELPAIS.COM Andalusia authorities to clear curbs and place new traffic signs to preserve the species Endangered Iberian lynx and her two cubs killed after being run over on Andalucian roads - Olive Press News Spain WWW.THEOLIVEPRESS.ES AN Iberian lynx and her two cubs, between five and six months old, have been run over and killed on the JA-6104 road in two se
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No room for jocularity here...
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If there were big cats in their hundreds there would be reams of evidence from the dead sheep littering the countryside, farmers shooting the feckers, insurance claims for damages etc...
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What no big cats? Some how although they aren't one of the collated creature I think they'd get a mention ? Temporal patterns of wildlife roadkill in the UK JOURNALS.PLOS.ORG Wildlife-vehicle collisions are one of the main causes of mortality for wild mammals and birds in the UK. Here, using a dataset of 54,000+ records collated by a... Even road kill is studied on this closely scrutinised highly populated little island.
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Because I challenge your fundamental beliefs and cause you cognitive dissonance +++, ( According to this theory, when two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people do all in their power to change them until they become consistent. The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein the individual tries to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort) basically you know deep down there should be road kill in numbers, cubs found, video evidence etc etc and there isn't.....
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But it would appear we are supposed to have hundreds of big cats which is a pretty big population.
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Once again when I challenge your lack of evidence you fall to insults, with ad hominem attacks, (appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect. an ad hominem argument. : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made) is THE last last stand of those without evidence. PLEASE TRY TO BE A LITTLE MORE GROWN UP.
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Why is it weak and silly? there's a few isolated populations of wallabies in the UK, well known and filmed, if there were a few populations of big cats why aren't they also well documented and studied? Small populations of Pumas are studied in USA, Leopards in north Africa etc. How come ours are so elusive????
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We don't seem to get surplus killing but other countries do, pumas in the Americas. Just a moment... ONLINELIBRARY.WILEY.COM Leopards in Africa. http://www.stuartonnature.com/resources/Scientific_papers/20_Jan_2016/P pardus F caracal surpl killing in CP 1986.pdf One leopard in Cape Province, South Africa killed 51 sheep and lambs in a single incident. Similarly, two caracal in Cape Province killed 22 sheep in one night, from About: Surplus killing DBPEDIA.ORG Surplus killing, also known as excessive killing, k
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Abstract Wide-ranging large carnivores pose myriad challenges for conservation, especially in highly fragmented landscapes. Over a 13-year period, we combined monitoring of radio collared pumas (Puma concolor) with complementary multi-generational genetic analyses to inform puma conservation in southern California, USA. Our goals were to generate survivorship estimates, determine causes of mortality, identify barriers to movement, and determine the genetic and demographic challenges to puma persistence among >20,000,000 people and extensive urban, suburban, and exurban development. D
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And?? A thermal of a cat, fox ?? That picture could be any amount of creatures. If its taken from the film put up earlier its a moggy. As to road kill cat, yes could be a tabby cat. Where's the panthers killed on the M5????? Where the cubs found and handed into recues???? Where's the hundreds of dead sheep??? Whers the videos and stills from the thousands of wildlife cameras. Where's the spottings on well studied nature reserves???? Big cats don't live in isolation so if they were here they would be recognised and studied as part of our fauna. As
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If you look really close theres all sorts of things you can spot in Devon..... You just have to believe ?
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I ran wallabies with a lurcher as a lad, not overly sporting and I'd walk by these days but as a lad I'd run anything. Last one i saw was squashed on the A5 north of beds last year so at least they exist in the UK. Not many but a few isolated populations that are known, studied filmed etc. It's odd there's only a few hundred but plenty of clears picture plus wildlife makers filming them. Wallabies Are On The Loose In Britain – And We’ve Mapped 95 Sightings WWW.IFLSCIENCE.COM
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If there were big cats of a population that could be self maintaining in places like Gloucestershire we would have a multitude of irrefutable evidence in the form of mobile cameras, cctv, cubs being found, road kill and lots of dead sheep. As we have none of these the reality is there is no such population. Take Slimbridge WWT, having a large area of reasonably undisturbed land packed full of tasty morsels to attract a feline predator, deer, geese, ducks etc. But in spite of it having been studied by expert naturalist for many years there is no evidence of big cats frequenting the place. Y
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I'd say in all likelihood it's more likely a wallabie rather than a big cat in the UK but in reality its a common or garden moggy.
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UK food price inflation hits new high of 12.4% | Inflation | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Rise in cost of essentials will hit poorer households, already struggling with higher energy bills, hardest
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What has any of this got to do with nurses? I take it its the best you can muster in the way of insult? The problem is you are so caught up in the whole idea of big cats that you actually identify with it. When someone questions the reality it knocks your beliefs and you feel it as a personal insult rather than accepting it as part of a debate of a subject. I believe you generally feel hurt which then leads you to try to insult what you see as a protagonist to defend your ego. A very apt demonstration of cognitive dissonance.
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Just putting off a couple of jobs...
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Mind this sasquatch is pretty convincing
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Strange 'fox-like' animal spotted in Somerset field before slinking... FB.WATCH 11K views, 16 likes, 0 loves, 78 comments, 7 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Somerset Live: A strange... ? what the eyes see but the brain believes....
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Couple of early ones i did in my teens of Mcbogtrotter with his whippets, keeps it quiet but uses them to put a bend in and give the plodders chance ?
