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Date: 13 Aug 2006 04:24 (UTC)I have a stuffed bat:D.
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Date: 13 Aug 2006 04:37 (UTC)Real ones, plushies, or both?
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Date: 13 Aug 2006 05:11 (UTC)Works now, though.
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Date: 13 Aug 2006 05:14 (UTC)Well, taxidermied, preferable.
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 08:55 (UTC)Eeew.
You know every single fruit bat sold on ebay is one 'harvested from the wild'
Translation - shot in the head with a gun, to make a grubby taxidermy mount so some dumb Ebayer can contribute to wiping out bat populations?
It's why I ran a petition and got around 3,000 signatures to try and stop taxidermy bats being sold on ebay.
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 21:47 (UTC)I have many of them, (no bats, actually, though a few small bat skulls) and they are from roadkilled wild animals, or dead zoological specimens.
I am aware that many of the specimens on ebay, like the bats, the tarantulas, and the stuffed rattlers and cobras, are taken en masse, with no real regulation regarding them, and many are dwindiling. Snakes, and Tarantulas are also long lived species that even in the best of times, are hardly sustainable populations that can rebound from those sort of unnaturally high pressures, though.
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 22:46 (UTC)I have no problem with taxidermy as such, but killing an animal to turn it into a specimen is very wrong.
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Date: 15 Aug 2006 01:32 (UTC)I wish I would/could agree that ebay has that much of an impact, (I have reported remains from endangered hornbills, native north american birds, and birds of prey, ect, all illegal to sell here) but if ebay doesn't have the market, there are a ton of kitchie "spooky" stores, and such that sell that sort of thing here. At the beach every summer I see no end to stores with mounted bats, cane toads, pirana, blowfish, and a variety of skulls and shells of sea animals and turtles for sale. Many are common species, and such, but every now and then you see something downright rare.
"I have no problem with taxidermy as such, but killing an animal to turn it into a specimen is very wrong."
Agreed for the most part, unless it is a serious scientfic specimen to document a species. (mostly in the case of arthropods)
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Date: 14 Aug 2006 23:12 (UTC)Re: Just reading through....
Date: 15 Aug 2006 01:26 (UTC)I guess. I am in no need of an essay to figure that the animals on ebay and at sales places as dead specimens were "collected" - much like I don't need to see that for the snake specimens sold stuffed in numbers.
I don't live anywhere fruit bats live. I have though found bats dead, roadkilled bats, mummified bats, and have bats that came into rehab and die given to me. My specimens are North American species, for the most part prepared by myself, so, I know where they all came from. I do not sell or barter in them. I most certianly do not kill animals for specimens sake, including arthropods.
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