Posted on 05/06/2010 11:00:45 PM PDT by Plutarch
So far, not many birds have been harmed by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the slick has yet to hit land. But many more brown pelicans, like this one, and birds of other species are likely to become covered in oil.
A German biologist says that efforts to clean oil-drenched birds in the Gulf of Mexico are in vain. For the birds' sake, it would be faster and less painful if animal-rescue workers put them under, she says. Studies and other experts back her up.
"Kill, don't clean," is the recommendation of a German animal biologist, who this week said that massive efforts to clean oil-soaked birds in Gulf of Mexico won't do much to stop a near certain and painful death for the creatures.
Despite the short-term success in cleaning the birds and releasing them back into the wild, few, if any, have a chance of surviving, says Silvia Gaus, a biologist at the Wattenmeer National Park along the North Sea in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
"According to serious studies, the middle-term survival rate of oil-soaked birds is under 1 percent," Gaus says. "We, therefore, oppose cleaning birds."
The oil spill -- which continues to pump more than 200,000 gallons (755,000 liters) of crude into the Gulf each day -- was caused by an April 20 explosion on a BP-operated oil rig about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast.
In the path of the spill are several large protected areas for wildlife, including a vital nesting area for thousands of brown pelicans which were only removed from the US Endangered Species Program last year. Louisiana's Breton National Wildlife Refuge is by itself home to 34,000 birds...
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
The meat’s still good, ain’t it? Prisoner food.
it’ll slide right down— dont even have to chew it up
Just like a real pelican eats
The prison food is already pretty bad, why make it worse?
Can we feed the prisoners to the pelicans instead?
The truly deranged and guilty ones, sure.
I don't quite think that I understand this whole 'Animals vill be bred und SLAUGHTERED' mentality these people have, but I'm starting to think that you have to have a German brain to come up with these 'final solutions'.
This kind of thing is not supposed to happen with a Democrat president. Therefore we are not told.
Saith the referenced article, bird cleaning is usually in vain for the reason that by the time an oiled bird is caught it has probably managed to ingest a fatally poisonous dose of oil. If there were some easy test for whether a bird had thus been poisoned, it might be possible to save more birds as time, effort, and cleaning resources would not be wasted on birds in such bad shape that they would better be euthanized.
Actually, the prisoner's are going to be used to clean, rather than eat, the pelicans.
Prisoners in Louisiana marching to a training exercise to learn how to clean oil from stricken birds. Some researchers say it might be better to let the birds die. Studies say that just 1 percent of cleansed birds survive -- many die from the stress of being handled by humans.
If they are part of worldwide humane societies it would make sense for them to speak up. I don’t understand the situation with Knut (the likes of PETA would not want any zoos to exist). But triage on birds caught in oil spills sounds like it makes eminent sense.
Dang. Beat me to it.
I don’t know who races out to find animal victims of these man-made disasters, but anyone who wants to scrub the oil off a pelican or an otter is A-OK in my book.
Why not make lampshades out of them like, oh, wait...
You MUST be right, because Germans are the only group to have EVER participated in Genocide, and the NAZIs (note not ALL Germans were NAZIs) killing 6 million Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Christians, the Handicapped and the elderly is a lot like the humane killing of a suffering Pelican. And the “German Brain” as you say is the only brain capable of thinking of “evil”.
< /sarc >
(In case you REALLY needed that tag. Given your post, I thought it might be a safe bet.)
OK, so I was a little over the top.
Black Skin Heads??
How many of them live after they are released? We don't know.
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