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Chicagoist read this story about all the dead animals that showed up at the Kickapoo Forest Preserve and thought, oh, if only Andrew Peerless were still here. You see, he used to write a lot about animals, and around that time Lincoln Park Zoo was having a problem keeping them alive. We used to joke he had the "Dead Animal Beat." But alas, he's moved up and on.
If you haven't heard the story, a guy was walking through Kickapoo Forest Preserve in Riverdale with his little 6-year-old daughter when they spotted a dead dog. And then another dead dog. And then a few dead raccoons. Oh, and then some dead possums. More than 12 dead animals were found bleeding from their mouths and noses within 100 feet of each other. One raccoon was even dead up in a tree! If that's not a 6-year-old's nightmare, we don't know what is. The man, an environmental activist, thought, "Poison!" Not the band, dummy. The stuff that kills ya! And his little girl understandably freaked out and was crying.
Tests will be run on the dead animals to see if it was pesicides, rabies, toxins, insecticides, pharmalogicals or what exactly killed them. Just when we were thinking that wild animals had a better chance of surviving than those in the zoo ...
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hahaha, nice funny at the end of the article. To bad wild animals are not Ok. 50% of the world species will be gone in the next 100 years, if not faster. Pretty much everything that is too large to adapt or migrate. Atleast we keep all the animals stolen from Africa here in our 'Natural Wildlife Parks.'
I am so happy that my childeren will get to see African animals here in the US. It is so educational to see a Rhino in a cage, you can tell how meaninful it is to child development by how smart american childeren are.
Who would want to protect all the animals in their natural habital, letting their populations to prosper in the wild? Pfft, I would rather my kids go to the Zoo than let all your snot noze decentants live on a planet with wildlife.
So, Anonymous, what do you propose to do with all the Africans (i.e. people)? Forced emigration? Genocide?
Gotta make sure that those animals prosper in their natural habitat--meaning we can't have people eating them.
Maybe if people would stop having more children than they or their land can support, this wouldn't even be a question. Until socially backwards people finally accept that family planning is in everyone's best interests, it's kind of hard not to laugh at those who advocate just allowing the current paradigm to continue. Of course laughing at these ideas doesn't make them any more irresponsible.
This isn't to say I think we should kill those already born or allow them to die due to neglect. It's just saying that while we fight to better the odds for those here now to thrive, we actively work to ensure that another generation isn't born into the same hopeless circumstances.
Guarding native ecosystems and the creatures that are part of them is a fundamental part of protecting the future of every human who lives today and those who will live tomorrow too. People spreading like locusts to cover every last square inch of this planet will guarantee severe blowback by mother nature, and probably sooner rather than later.
Maybe if people would stop having more children than they or their land can support, this wouldn't even be a question. Until socially backwards people finally accept that family planning is in everyone's best interests, it's kind of hard not to laugh at those who advocate just allowing the current paradigm to continue. Of course laughing at these ideas doesn't make them any less irresponsible.
This isn't to say I think we should kill those already born or allow them to die due to neglect. It's just saying that while we fight to better the odds for those here now to thrive, we actively work to ensure that another generation isn't born into the same hopeless circumstances.
Guarding native ecosystems and the creatures that are part of them is a fundamental part of protecting the future of every human who lives today and those who will live tomorrow too. People spreading like locusts to cover every last square inch of this planet will guarantee severe blowback by mother nature, and probably sooner rather than later.
Have any of the tests come back confirming poison?
-PT