Re: Just reading through....

Date: 15 Aug 2006 01:32 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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)

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