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Subject:
ferrets and shags (bird) and now there are some news people blowing it
From:
Sukie Crandall <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:19:00 -0400
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THIS is the sort of thing that happens when the news media confuses
hypotheses with known facts.

<http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_jerseynews/displayarticle.asp?id=491410>

I've heard from a bird rehabber who basically said that shags would
easily kill a ferret or polecat trying this though maybe a few eggs
could be affected.

The original news story pointed out that the food sources for the shags
had been declining, and this one does, too, BUT it first makes it sound
like the animals are to blame:

>The trouble began in 2006 when a bloom in algae meant the visibility
>of the sea became poor. As a result the shags could not successfuly
>hunt for fish below the waves. The local population of 1,000 birds
>shrank to just 200.

Sukie (not a vet)

Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferrethealth.msu.edu/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
all ferret topics:
http://listserv.ferretmailinglist.org/archives/ferret-search.html
"All hail the procrastinators for they shall rule the world tomorrow."
(2010, Steve Crandall)
On change for its own sake:  "You can go really fast if you just jump
off the cliff." (2010, Steve Crandall)

[Posted in FML 6858]


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