I`m off to Greece now for a month!
I`ll research on cricket behavior, but beside that I hope to come back with a lot of beautiful photos.

Three weeks in a tent (which is not a problem, BUT: )! With tarantulas, scorpions and 2cm ants outside! O_O

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As you might have seen I was raging against fur farms lately.

- Since then I saw live skinning of Chinese fur animals, foxes and raccoons. Horrible yet true. They were just given a few punches on the head but still breathing, laying without skin on the dirty ground, gasping for air in pain and slowly dying.
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-I saw other fur farms of silver foxes and minks which where quite as brutal as that. Housing them in wire fence and killing them with gas or with an electric shock from mouth to anus.

- I saw US puppy mills which work just the same, but that mother dogs are exhausted to breed and breed and that due to overproduction all the pups that don`t make it due to the horrible conditions do not reduce the earned money for the whole farm.
Google search pictures: "puppy mills"
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- I heard that lynxes are also farmed in the US for their belly fur. I yet have not investigated this closer but I guess it is all the same there.

- Today I heard of tiger and bear farms in china. Yes, even those big animals are bred for their fur (and bones and meat). [link]
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When I was reading about the tiger farms it was said that they only have the space of a "battery hen". - Oh my, that sounded cruel. Does the hen not also need more space? Is it less cruel to torment a hen than a tiger???
I really am against cruel breeding no matter what for!! And also no matter which animal it is!

There are human ways to breed and kill chickens and cows! Why does nobody rage against the cruelty ongoing in your country?

Yes, and the thought that must come is: Would it be ethical to breed animals not to eat them? Is it ethical to buy fur from "good" farm? It is ethical to buy tiger meat if it was breed in a "good" farm?

The point the farms also bring up is, that the species endangered in the wild (e.g. Chinese tiger are only 20 left in the wild; that is they are practically extinct) are not touched by hunters then if they can breed them.

Here the point is, if the wild ones are nevertheless extinct or will be extinct (because of hunting and area loss) soon, are the farms something good then???

You have to find out that for your self. But to my mind comes what by biology teacher once said: If one could resurrect a dinosaur it just would die out again, because it was no longer space to live on this earth.
Always keep in mind that nature does not care if species die, or if the climate changes. But we should care because we can`t bring the species back, and we are the species which might get endangered because of a climate change. Seriously the planet does not care!

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The links are random sites or videos with related material. Just type any of the key words in google or youtube and you will see what is going on in your and my world.