[The KG9 Kid]

First the German animal rights activists demanded that the little polar bear 'Knut' in the Berlin Zoo be killed, and now they're sticking their noses into oily pelicans a half a world away from them as if it's any of their damned business?

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'.

[MarMema]

The survival rate will differ with each oil spill because of all the factors that effect it. Some of those factors are the toxicity of the oil, how rapidly the birds are collected and stabilized, what condition the bird was in before it was oiled, and the species involved. We have had release rates as high as 100% and as low as 25% in the early years. We now average about 50% to 80%. Again, it depends on many variables and cannot be predicted.

[HiTech RedNeck]

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.

[LibertyRocks]

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.)