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@StephenBieber_ @NYJ_Matt You gotta treat outside CB and slot CB as different positions. Different skills and physical attributes. Thomas is the first guy up if Sauce or Stephens go down.

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@patrckfox @ArmandDoma The book isn’t about messaging. It’s about governing philosophy.

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@lxeagle17 Did I miss the news cycle where a massive landmass appeared in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico?

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@FerfeLaBat @gunsnrosesgirl3 That is 100% a baby hammerhead. The head is too wide to be a bonnethead

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@jordan_rickards @ZackBlatt Zach was doing enough to keep them in the game in the first half if the rest of the team showed up.

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@DatGreenMonstah @EDGEinthewild Commercial fishing has been banned in the vaquita’s habitat since the 1970’s, but illegal fishing has continued since then. So the regulations are there but they’ve been ineffective to say the least.

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@EDGEinthewild A 5 million dollar captive breeding program was attempted in 2017 but was shelved after the project’s first vaquita died soon after capture. The good news is that her cells were frozen and stored at the San Diego Zoo. You can read more here:

https://t.co/5SYOexyel4

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@JCaporoso Are the niners and dolphins potential destinations for Rodgers that could actually happen?

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@BruceEllerstein @Molly_Bangles Ray poisoning and lots of cars. Central Park’s other most famous owl, Barry, died in a car collision not too long ago.

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@ChrisDPiazza @abclooksatbirds @Lucent508 There is plenty of scientific research on captive animals which suggests they can experience depression, and that’s especially true when they can’t behave as they normally would in the wild (like Flaco). Is that research ignorantly projecting human biases too? What am I missing?

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@ChrisDPiazza @abclooksatbirds @Lucent508 It is relevant because we’re talking about the cost of both decisions. The cost of letting him be free is that he will compete with & predate on wildlife in the park. The cost of capturing him is that he will spend the rest of his life in a box where he is unable to hunt and fly.

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@ChrisDPiazza @abclooksatbirds @Lucent508 Well there’s a cost for either choice. I don’t have to be wildlife professional to know that is ain’t it for Flaco.

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@ChrisDPiazza @abclooksatbirds @Lucent508 I would absolutely agree if we were talking about Eagle Owls becoming an established species, but that’s not what we’re talking about. If Flaco is able to outcompete the other predators in his section of the park, that seems very minor to me in the grand scheme of things.

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@cooIcat420 The majority of the animals you see in Central Park are nonnative (that includes rats, cats, pigeons, sparrows, starlings, red-eared sliders, cats, bass, and koi). Very little about this ecosystem is natural, so I’m not sure why a single owl would make a big difference.

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@JeffreyMWard IMO healthy birds of prey are particularly unsuited for zoos. Captivity just can’t provide these birds with the space they need to behave naturally. I agree that zoos aren’t all bad but it is for eagles, hawks and owls.

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@UXHenry @Above96th Yes, @davidlei has photographed him eating rats.

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@ChrisDPiazza @abclooksatbirds @Lucent508 The nonnative rats, cats, sparrows, starlings, pigeons, slider turtles, bass and koi (not to mention the constant human presence & alteration) have already destroyed any natural competition in the park. But the effect of a single owl is supposed to concern me? It seems pedantic.

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@MakotoRen_ @r2junot @BirdCentralPark There is a resident female Great Horned Owl in the park, which is a very similar species to the Eurasian Eagle Owl.

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@HoorayitsJeff @RyanFMandelbaum What effect would Flaco have on the ecosystem that a native Great Horned Owl wouldn’t?

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@abclooksatbirds @Lucent508 What effect would Flaco have on the ecosystem that a native Great Horned Owl wouldn’t?