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Cormorant culling is the intentional killing of cormorants by humans for the purposes of wildlife management. It has been practiced for centuries, with supporters of culling generally arising from the angling community.
Cormorant culling is the intentional killing of cormorants by humans for the purposes of wildlife management. It has been practiced for centuries, with supporters of culling generally arising from the angling community. Culling techniques may involve the killing of birds, the destruction of eggs, or both.
Culling is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics. In animal breeding , it is removing or segregating animals from a breeding stock based on a specific trait.
[1] [2] [3] Mark Bekoff, an American biologist and ethologist coined the term "zoothanasia" to describe zoo culling. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Because animals in zoos are killed for many reasons, such as old age or disease, just as pet animals are often euthanized because of health problems, it is beyond the scope of this list to identify every case where an ...
Foam depopulation was developed in 2006 in response to a 2004 outbreak of H7N2. [8] It received conditional approval the same year in the US by the USDA-APHIS. [9]In the 2015 H5N2 outbreak in the US, foaming was the primary method used to kill poultry en masse with it employed at 66% of locations. [10]
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In 1964, the MSPCA launched "Operation Gwamba" in Suriname which saved 9,737 animals from hydroelectric dam flooding and was the largest such project in history. MSPCA logo, 1921 The MSPCA and Angell Memorial Animal Hospital moved into a shared facility at 350 South Huntington Avenue in 1976, which was the most extensive animal service center ...
Pygmy cormorant: Microcarbo pygmaeus: 1 Reed cormorant: Microcarbo africanus: 2 Crowned cormorant: Microcarbo coronatus: 3 Little cormorant: Microcarbo niger: 4 Little pied cormorant: Microcarbo melanoleucos: 5 Red-legged cormorant: Poikilocarbo gaimardi: 6 Brandt's cormorant: Urile penicillatus: 7 Red-faced cormorant: Urile urile: 8 Pelagic ...