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Since kea are now a protected species, their depredations are generally tolerated by sheep farmers, though why some kea attack sheep, and others do not, remains unclear. Various theories, including similarities with existing food sources, curiosity, entertainment, hunger, maggots as well as a progression from scavenging dead sheep and hides ...
A Kea will attack and eat part of the sheep, but the bird doesn't directly kill it. Our section on Diet covers this. If you can't access the video cited there, this picture gives a reasonable portrayal of a Kea attack. -- Avenue 21:13, 1 April 2009 (UTC) The sheep photo in the article shows a deep wound close to the kidneys.
Merino sheep tend to be the most vulnerable, due to their habit of scattering upon attack, unlike fat-tailed sheep which bunch together for defence. In Transvaal between 1965 and 1971, a study on the stomach contents of over 400 jackals showed that sheep constituted 6% of the diet of jackals living in game reserves, and 27% for those living ...
That's what happened in this video that RFD-TV posted on Facebook on Wednesday, August 7th, of a livestock guardian dog protecting his flock, as one of the sheep he was responsible for wouldn't ...
A sheep herder was seriously injured in a pre-dawn bear attack in southwest Colorado on Tuesday, authorities said. The unidentified 35-year-old man was near a camp in the Weminuche Wilderness ...
The attacks have greatly disrupted maritime traffic in the Red Sea, a key shipping route, leading the U.S., the U.K. and others to launch strikes against Houthi targets as the Israel-Hamas war ...
[27] [33] [34] Egyptian officials suggested that the attacks were due to overfishing, illegal feeding, the dumping overboard of sheep carcasses, or unusually high water temperatures. Amr Yossef, adjunct professor of political science at the American University in Cairo , wrote that this and other similar conspiracy theories result from a ...
A suspected illegal immigrant was arrested in South Carolina after officials say he made a fake bomb threat during a traffic stop which ultimately led to a section of the I-85 being shut down for ...