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The insanity of "critter cams" and the internet

pete6032

pete6032

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Do people have nothing better to do?

Minnesota eagle cam proves we can't handle the proof of nature

One Thursday night in early May, people watching the “EagleCam” run by the Nongame Wildlife Program of the state’s Department of Natural Resources noticed that one of the three eagle chicks in the nest was immobile. It appeared to be suffering.

The Nongame Wildlife Program, however, had a policy to let nature play out and not intervene; it doesn’t want to compromise the essential eagleness of the eagles on its EagleCam.

By the next morning, the Nongame Wildlife Program was bombarded by emails, phone calls and notes on social media, pleading with it to step in and get "Snap," the baby eagle, some medical attention.

The public outcry, Naumann later told me, was “getting more hostile as the day went on.” It became hard to ignore. At one point that Friday afternoon, she found herself on the phone with a woman who simply couldn’t accept the agency’s refusal to help Snap. “She was crying and crying and could not be consoled,” Naumann said.
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" it doesn’t want to compromise the essential eagleness of the eagles on its EagleCam. "

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People are so coddled and comfortable through their lives that they can't suffer the slightest bit of hard work or discomfort. If they're not getting their way, they're throwing a fit.
 
At one point that Friday afternoon, she found herself on the phone with a woman who simply couldn’t accept the agency’s refusal to help Snap. “She was crying and crying and could not be consoled,” Naumann said.
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Western women are in such a sheltered world it's annoying.

Yes lady, wild animals die. Grow the fuck up.
 
Train said:
Western women are in such a sheltered world it's annoying.

Yes lady, wild animals die. Grow the fuck up.
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But if an animal dies in the forest and I'm not around to see it, it didn't die!

(goes back to watching insects eat other insects on the intertubes)
 
Sounds like some people don't understand the distinction between "nature" and "the zoo." I wonder if these people start bawling every time they watch a nature documentary; "how could those cameramen let that lion eat the gazelle?!"
 
I had a webcam aimed at a hummingbird nest in our carport. One of the chicks died. If one happened to be watching the webcam at the appropriate time one would have seen a tweezers reach into the nest and remove the dead chick so the healthy chick wouldn't be assaulted by whatever came to eat the dead chick. It never occurred to us to try to save the chick. Now I'm going to go search on hummingbird rescue and see if anyone has ever successfully treated a hummingbird chick.
 
on youtube theres a video of a baby leopard that gets its leg stuck in a tree stump and gets paralyzed and dies over a couple hours. baby leopards are kyoot as fug--way kyooter that eagle chicks, so everyone leaves comments about horrible the filmmakers are for not just helping the leopard outta da tree stump, as if that would get as many views as a baby leopard stuck in a tree stump
 
that's pretty fcked up because if wild animals saw us maimed and/or suffering they'd probably come up and eat the shit out of us.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
Sounds like some people don't understand the distinction between "nature" and "the zoo." I wonder if these people start bawling every time they watch a nature documentary; "how could those cameramen let that lion eat the gazelle?!"
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That lion needs to get its meat at the super market like the rest of us!
 
IronWing said:
I had a webcam aimed at a hummingbird nest in our carport. One of the chicks died. If one happened to be watching the webcam at the appropriate time one would have seen a tweezers reach into the nest and remove the dead chick so the healthy chick wouldn't be assaulted by whatever came to eat the dead chick. It never occurred to us to try to save the chick. Now I'm going to go search on hummingbird rescue and see if anyone has ever successfully treated a hummingbird chick.
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I've had a few nest cams up here; right now I have a nest in a box in the carport that is not really "cam-able", it is under a closed flap.
The neighbors had a nest in a flower basket on their porch a couple of years ago, within range of my wifi.
I put up the cam and that night a rat got in there and cleared out all the chicks! :thumbsdown:
 
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