how far out of your way do you go to help wild animals each day on average?
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
Not much, there arent many wild animals around on my typical day.
I have a spider in the corner of my bathroom that I leave alone.
I watch squirrels in the front yard, they need nothing from me.
The front yard is riddled with moles and dying grass. I live in a condo that is responsible for yard care and they aren't doing much about the moles. I don't especially like large, green grass yards so I don't care if they're letting the moles destroy it all. Letting them do their thing.
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
I was on a walk and saw a beetle on its back. I turned the beetle around so that it could carry on.
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
We have a parking garage with a few windows in its corners (fucking incompetent design) and birds will often get confused / trapped by the windows.
I will ALWAYS stop and help get them out but sliding a folder / book under them and moving them to an opening.
What’s interesting is that the birds always allow me to help. Perhaps it’s because they’re just exhausted, or perhaps they really understand that I’m trying to help them. I do not know.
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We have a parking garage with a few windows in its corners (fucking incompetent design) and birds will often get confused / trapped by the windows.
I will ALWAYS stop and help get them out but sliding a folder / book under them and moving them to an opening.
What’s interesting is that the birds always allow me to help. Perhaps it’s because they’re just exhausted, or perhaps they really understand that I’m trying to help them. I do not know.
Them being compliant is a defensive behavior called freezing. If they get hurt fighting you, they won't be able to escape, so they're waiting to see what you are going to do before they decide if fighting is worth the risk.
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
On average I don't really need to go far out my way, because it's mostly insects or spiders. I just catch the bees and release them outside, not far of their hive, don't use something because a spider live here or help some thing trapped somewhere stupid.
One day my partner and I did 30km for an injured bat, because there was nobody closer who could take and heal her. I saw the birds the organization took in (for healing/helping) the same day, and you don't often have a chance to see a baby owl in real life!
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
My dad likes to feed wild racoons and I help him with that. He puts some dog food and a couple other things out for them and they come up every night to get some and hang out for a bit before returning home
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
Do my bird feeders count? Does my garden built with biodiversity and creating small pockets for criters and bugs count?
Not using pesticides and trying to use organic products to manage my gardens.
If those count, then 100% daily through active and passive means.
Our yard has bunnies, wild birds, assorted pollinators, squirrels and even an opossum living under our bay window. All of this on 1/2 acre in the suburbs. Planting perrenials is fun.
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What if you ruined their tan!
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
Does this count? My wife feeding the Kudu. They get a bucket or so a day of pellets and a bale or two, especially in winter. We have kudu, impala, zebra, etc (even the odd giraffe) passing by most days. And bananas and peanut butter for the bush babies at night.
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Them being compliant is a defensive behavior called freezing. If they get hurt fighting you, they won't be able to escape, so they're waiting to see what you are going to do before they decide if fighting is worth the risk.
Exactly like me in the biker bar.
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Exactly like me in the biker bar.
You've got the idea!
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
I feed anything I come across. I helped a tortoise into the trees a few days ago. Second time I've seen him. We have frogs lately after it rains. Cute little guys. I love animals and wish I encountered more every day.
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
Specifically avoiding running into the wildlife when driving, mostly to protect the car but I suppose it does help the wildlife
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'help' can include 'interacting positively with' and anything else done specifically for their benefit.
My wife and have extensive flower beds on our property. My very first job as a teenager was in a nursery/garden center and did a lot of landscaping and landscaping design back then. So we have something flowering through out the entire growing season for the pollinators.
Here is one of the more interesting pollinators we have:
