Monte Merrick
Member since Jul 3, 2013
Recent Comments
Re: “Fish and Wildlife: Don't Take the Fawns (with Video)”
If someone finds a fawn that they believe is in need of help, please call Humboldt Wildlife Care Center/bird ally x. Our staff can determine if the fawn needs care, and HWCC is where that care will be done. Local CDFW office will only refer the call to HWCC, so call us! 707 822 8839. Keeping wild families together is as important a task during wild baby season as providing care to orphans in need. Our staff is ready and able to bring about the best possible outcome for wild babies, whether they are fawns, raccoons, barn swallows, or common murres.
Re: “Please Don't Cry in the Big Girl's Store”
you're an excellent writer.
Re: “Justice for Josiah”
Well Walker, if you kill someone defending yourself, then you man up and turn yourself in so you can prove it in a court of law. otherwise youre trying to get away with murder. nice way to side with a murderer.
Re: “Musical Transmitters”
i love how dead monday was... a lot...
Re: “Oh, mercy”
Actually, the ideas of imprinting, habituation, their definitions and the differences between them are something we take very seriously in our work, as do all wildlife rehabilitators. These definitions exist, not as commandments but as tools that change with time. Ideas about the consciousness of animals are as subject to revision and review as anything else and at the moment, there aren't hard and fast ideas about what imprinting means, or even if that idea is particularly useful. No disrespect to Konrad Lorenz intended, but the fields of animal psychology have moved on since his time.
Re: “Private Agenda Missionaries?”
Dear Stephen, the consensus you claim to be anxious to build won't get built by bullying others into not voicing their opinions. Mary Ella Anderson expressed her concerns but advocated only for public participation in the processes of public agencies and committees and commissions. She didn't call anyone or their ideas chicken shit, or shiite, which is what? 'cleverly' disguised anti-islamic petty-hate speech?
Re: “A Burrowing Owl Pops Up”
here's a link to the story about the Burrowing Owl we treated at HWCC/bax in 2017
https://birdallyx.net/burrowing-owls-dig-h…