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Re: Just reading through....

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

A lot of the flying foxes on Ebay are from S.E.Asia, and are mostly killed to order. A few I've seen are from Vietnam, and are of rare species. If Ebay would stop sales of rare taxidermy specimens then the kill-on-demand would drop right off.

I have no problem with taxidermy as such, but killing an animal to turn it into a specimen is very wrong.

Re: Just reading through....

[gatorofages.livejournal.com]

"If Ebay would stop sales of rare taxidermy specimens then the kill-on-demand would drop right off."

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)