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All strategies here are about food, I don't think feeding any kind of wild animals is good
by 11235813213455 4y ago
All strategies here are about food, I don't think feeding any kind of wild animals is good
- Tepix 4y agoWe wouldn't have non-wild animals if noone had started feeding them.
- voakbasda 4y agoIn many places it is now outright illegal to feed wildlife. Humanity’s period of whole species domestication has passed.
- astrange 4y agoIIRC dogs may have domesticated themselves by coming to visit us to eat our poop, not our hand feeding.
- Cupertino95014 4y agoI realize that all this is conjectural, but: Why is that more likely than just "eating the bones, skin, feet, and other animal parts the humans didn't eat" ? Either is more likely than "hand feeding" since that takes a pretty tamed animal.
- astrange 4y agoHunter gatherers eat the whole animal. Who’s throwing out skin and feet? https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/202008/did-eating-human-poop-play-role-in-the-evolution-dogs https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/animals-and-us/20200...
- Cupertino95014 4y agothanks. New name for a restaurant for dogs: The Coprophagia Cafe
- 11235813213455 4y ago"have animals" is very anthropocentrist
- asdf123wtf 4y agoYea, generally when people feed animals it is harmful to the animal or potentially dangerous for humans in a variety of ways or you turn the animals into pests. Is there something special about crows where these things aren't so much a factor?
- fzeroracer 4y agoI think a lot of it is the high intelligence of crows. If you feed say, wild deer or other animals they become dependent on humans to survive or end up sticking around human areas. Crows are already everywhere and their intelligence means that if the food source stops, they can still just do their thing. It doesn't disrupt the ecosystem though it can make them into an annoyance for neighbors. The more we learn about crows, their behaviors etc the more we realize that we severely understate their intelligence with each new finding.
- aidenn0 4y agoAlso crows can tell humans apart, so feeding crows makes them less afraid of you while feeding other animals can make them less afraid of all humans.
- _cenw 4y agoCrows are generally a pest inhibitor, given that they will eat carrion before less desirable "pests" like rats get to it. They also already are adopted to living in human cities. Usually in parks where they can do some traditional hunting intermixed with trash collecting and some direct feeding. But they are usually not reliant on the later and will move on in Winter if the other sources dry up.
- Nomentatus 4y agoTurns out it's okay nutritionally to feed ducks (for example) fresh (thawed frozen) peas. Just not bread. Changing their habits might be a different consideration.