Animal Behavior Vids and Film Boycott
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rabid1stFirst, a sweet treat...Harbor the Raccoon enjoying himself.
Second, Liam Neeson has a new movie coming out that I really want to boycott. Luckily, so do a few other people. The problem with this movie is that it is a propaganda film against one of the most maligned creatures in America, the grey wolf. Grey wolves are cautious, family oriented creatures and they are not the least bit dangerous to man. Many people are surprised, given all the "big, bad wolf stories" to know that documented wolf attacks on adults are rare. Rabid animals will attack people and lone wolves have been known to carry off children in Europe. The Russian wolf which is related to the Arctic wolf (a bigger animal than our Grey) is the one most likely to attack humans.
Most of the documented attacks happened because the wolves were starving and/or acclimated to humans and/or feeding on dead bodies left outside village walls, back in the days of plague. As John D. Linnell puts it in his study The Fear of Wolves....http://www.lcie.org/Docs/Damage%20prevention/Linnell%20NINA%20OP%20731%20Fear%20of%20wolves%20eng.pdf..."A fair summary of our results would be...in those extremely rare cases where wolves have killed people, most attacks have been by rabid wolves, predatory attacks are aimed mainly at children, attacks in general are unusual but episodic, and humans are not part of their normal prey. When the frequency of attacks on people is compared to that of other large carnivores or wildlife in general it is obvious that wolves are among the least dangerous species."
A 21st Century grey wolf pack hunting people is just absurd. But, more importantly, Montana ranchers are trying to get permission to kill "vicious" wolves again, something that has led to near extinction of this beautiful animal in the past. How convenient to have this sort of propaganda out at the same time...and this movie used the real bodies of 4 grey wolves killed by people. Ironic that!
To boycott this film...http://www.thepetitionsite.com/40/boycott-the-grey/
Finally...a truly fun story of a Lurcher named, Red, who has some sympathy for his fellow inmates at the dog pound.
Second, Liam Neeson has a new movie coming out that I really want to boycott. Luckily, so do a few other people. The problem with this movie is that it is a propaganda film against one of the most maligned creatures in America, the grey wolf. Grey wolves are cautious, family oriented creatures and they are not the least bit dangerous to man. Many people are surprised, given all the "big, bad wolf stories" to know that documented wolf attacks on adults are rare. Rabid animals will attack people and lone wolves have been known to carry off children in Europe. The Russian wolf which is related to the Arctic wolf (a bigger animal than our Grey) is the one most likely to attack humans.
Most of the documented attacks happened because the wolves were starving and/or acclimated to humans and/or feeding on dead bodies left outside village walls, back in the days of plague. As John D. Linnell puts it in his study The Fear of Wolves....http://www.lcie.org/Docs/Damage%20prevention/Linnell%20NINA%20OP%20731%20Fear%20of%20wolves%20eng.pdf..."A fair summary of our results would be...in those extremely rare cases where wolves have killed people, most attacks have been by rabid wolves, predatory attacks are aimed mainly at children, attacks in general are unusual but episodic, and humans are not part of their normal prey. When the frequency of attacks on people is compared to that of other large carnivores or wildlife in general it is obvious that wolves are among the least dangerous species."
A 21st Century grey wolf pack hunting people is just absurd. But, more importantly, Montana ranchers are trying to get permission to kill "vicious" wolves again, something that has led to near extinction of this beautiful animal in the past. How convenient to have this sort of propaganda out at the same time...and this movie used the real bodies of 4 grey wolves killed by people. Ironic that!
To boycott this film...http://www.thepetitionsite.com/40/boycott-the-grey/
Finally...a truly fun story of a Lurcher named, Red, who has some sympathy for his fellow inmates at the dog pound.
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Date: 2012-01-28 08:38 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-28 02:34 pm (UTC)And while I rarely sign online petitions, I wholeheartedly signed this one. It disgusts me to know that, in the name of 'method acting', that they flew in those bodies to consume the meat for the film. Ick ick ick. Awful. Wolves are gorgeous beasties. Shame that they want to use propoganda to hunt them.