#depredator

[araghorn07]

It’s been a while since i posted anything 😭

So here y’all go

Bahkt’an ahaha

[callmeanxietygirl]

[v7blue]

[half-a-life-left]

don't worry christoff, we'll dance later

[manyblinkinglights]

Deeply unfair “severed head rolls to a stop, opens its eyes, then extends hands from itself and comes at me” jumpscare this morning. Unfair because a stronger ghost killing people in the corn had just struck down this one, which was why the head had rolled away in the first place, so it was the relatable underdog. Man…

[plethoraworldatlas]

More than 30 wildlife conservation groups today urged the U.S. Forest Service to prohibit Idaho from paying private contractors to shoot wolves from aircraft in national forests in central and southeastern Idaho. The Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board recently approved the controversial predator control measure.

Specifically, today’s letter asked the Forest Service to grant a 2023 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity. The petition explained that gunning down wolves from helicopters risks harm to other wildlife like grizzly bears and Canada lynx, as well as public safety and wilderness values.

If the Forest Service fails to promptly grant the petition, the groups may consider legal action in federal court.

“Recreationists should not have to worry about their safety while enjoying our public lands,” said Christine Gertschen, co-director of the Conservation Connection Foundation.

“Aerial gunning is dangerous for all concerned, especially for our native wildlife.”

The Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board is funded primarily by tax dollars. The proposals approved for funding could allow aerial gunning across much of Idaho, including lands in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Boise National Forest, Salmon-Challis National Forest, Sawtooth National Forest and Payette National Forest.

“Aerial gunning prioritizes wolf killings over the health and safety of our shared forests,” said Sasha Truax, presidents of Teens Restoring Earth’s Environment. “It is a twisted abuse of public funding and its continuance exposes the brutality of wolf management on public lands. It must be stopped.”

[sailoreuterpe]

I may not be very comfortable with explicit fic, but I still wish that I had the skill to write BLT Burgers' first time. T_T

[sspacegodd]

Hello, I was reading your blog and noticed some posts suggesting you might be from Idaho. If you are then I wanted to let you know that in this year's upcoming elections you will have an opportunity to vote for one of your fellow Tumblr users!

I'm sure you know r4cs0 since he is widely known as the "Tumblr famous" blogger responsible for such memorable posts as the Metal Gear Solid twerking simulator and  the post which resulted in the Tumblr developers implementing Tumblr Live! What you may not know is that his real name is Carlos Albuquerque and he lives in Idaho! This november he will be running for a spot on the Idaho Wolf Depredation Control Board (IWDCB)! I strongly encourage you to vote for Albuquerque!

As I'm sure you know, wolves are responsible for almost all the evils of society today! Catholic priests raping kids? Wolves did it. Who collapsed that bridge in Baltimore? Wolves, of course! All those protests organized at the DNC this year? Wolves, the Prince of Wolves to be specific! He is behind a conspiracy of wolves all across the country designed to overthrow our government! It's time for us to sharpen our bear traps, load up our rifles and hop in our helicopters to finally rise against the wolf menace!

By casting your vote for Carlos "r4cs0" Albuquerque this fall, you strike the first blow which will one day end the threat of wolves once and for all! For every vote r4cs0 receives this election, he has vowed to slay at least one wolf and bury it upside down on the consecrated ground of a gay bar. Do your part to save our democracy by casting a vote for Albuquerque!

You can count on me!

Stupid wolves.

[scorpius-rising]

Lotta liberals on this webbed site huh

[thefleshmustgrow]

How are you all btw

A lot of us don't talk but my freinds here are still in my heart always

[araghorn07]

I just watched a video with all the different yautjas in predator hunting grounds and I saw this Viking guy

I realised that Bahk’tan also has a skull on one of his shoulders, fur, an axe and 2 wristblades. I LOVE Vikings so… I will most likely give Bahk’tan some Vikings equipment (if I find motivation 💀)

[callmeanxietygirl]

PARA RECORDAR

Elle Fanning será la protagonista de la nueva película de Depredador que se llamará 'BADLANDS'. Este evento estará situada en algún futuro. Dan Trachtenberg ('PREY') será el director.

Y por otro lado, la secuela de 'PREY' sigue en desarrollo. La actriz Amber Midthunder volvería a retomar su papel como Naru.

[sophireal]

fem tricky drawing for a friend of mine hehe haha

[madwickedawesome]

listening to wannabe and ice ice baby in rapid succession and writing a paper abt depredation on this fine tuesday night

[that-purple-creature]

Treat me like one of your french girls

With general detachment, degredation and shame

[maid-of-timey-wimey]

It seems to me that these graphs might just be conveying similar information with different wording/levels of detail, because sheep and goats *are* domestic animals, after all! The 2022 report features a breakdown of inciting incidents by prey species, which included some dogs and cats but were mostly livestock. The 2015 report is extremely vague about what “domestic animals” entailed, but there’s no reason to assume that the species breakdown within that broad category would have been significantly different from what it was in 2022.

So there's a statistic I'm attempting to track down that is evading me and I am getting very frustrated by it but will report back on my findings later, but in the meantime, we're going to play a game of chase the citation.

I went looking for information about predation of housepets by native wildlife, so I start with the simple search "predators eating cats and dogs study." I use DDG as my daily driver, but I get better hits on peer-reviewed research when I use Google, so I google it and I get a link to the site Newser, which seems kind of garbagey but whatever it's got the story. I click through, which takes me to a story from the SFGate. This is a more in-depth report than the one from Newser, but nearly every link in the article is to a SFGate search of that term, not an outlink to a study or anything like it (there is a link at the bottom to learn more about a seminar, but it has nothing to do with the study under discussion). But, there's a better description of the study in the SFGate story, so I go back to Google with the search term "department of fish and wildlife; mountain lions eating cats study." The first link that *isn't* the SFGate story is Field & Stream, and the link leads me to a blog post. The first link in the blog post is back to SFGate, and the second link is, weirdly, to Patch.com reporting back on the same SFGate story. That site has the *awful* headline "California Mountain Lions are Eating Our Pets: Report" BUT the Patch.com writer went out and did at least a tiny bit of digging and so this shows up in the middle of that story:

So now I have another search term, "Stomach contents of depredating mountain lions necropsied by CDFW in 2015."

So I run a search on that term and the report doesn't show up, but what DOES show up is the depredation report for mountain lions in 2022, which has some very different results!

And that's at least some of the information that I'm looking for, but I want the report from 2015 so I go back to my search and click on one of the "search term not included, do you want only results with this term" links for "2015" and the correct report is the first link, with the Patch article as the second.

One interesting thing that the 2022 report has that the 2015 report does *not* is a graph with the inciting incidents that led to the issuance of a depredation permit, most of which were for goats and sheep in 2022, with very few permits issued for domestic animals. I can't draw any conclusions as to why necropsied mountain lions in 2022 were less likely to have eaten cats and dogs than necropsied mountain lions in 2015, but I'd be willing to put more weight on "the people requesting permits did so after livestock attacks rather than the loss of a domestic pet" than "mountain lions just stopped eating cats and dogs."

Anyway, this report doesn't connect to anything I'm talking about in a meaningful way, it's not like a huge deal or whatever. But if you are a reporter discussing "a recent report" and you don't link to the report I am going to fucking eat *you.*