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jeffbanke
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:08 pm
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Yet another animal introduced into the ecosystem in New Zealand by the Europeans
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jeffbanke
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:12 pm
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Another beautiful sky to use for something in the future :-)
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geoffwnz
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:24 pm
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| jeffbanke wrote: | | Another beautiful sky to use for something in the future :-) |
That wasn't this morning obviously. Or at least, not in Wellington anyway. :-p
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jeffbanke
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:25 pm
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Unfortunately the best I could do for this indigenous species of bottlenosed Dolphin was this shot
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jeffbanke
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:26 pm
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| geoffwnz wrote: | | jeffbanke wrote: | | Another beautiful sky to use for something in the future :-) |
That wasn't this morning obviously. Or at least, not in Wellington anyway. :-p |
LOL! not today mate :-)
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jeffbanke
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 12:44 pm
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A few of the images I have managed to work on
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kenk
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 5:15 pm
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Great shots!
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mirage3
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 5:49 pm
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| jeffbanke wrote: | | Another introduced species that have now been farmed, this group of male Red deer have had their antlers cut off while in velvet. The antlers are sold to Asian clients who believe there are some medical benefits, while much of the venison is sold to European clients, in particular Germany and some to the US |
...and if cut off without anesthetics (in Canada it is mandatory to have a vet. present to do so when cutting the antlers) it causes great pain to the deer as the nerves endings are still live in the velvet... but they are not when they normally shed their antlers once long after the velvet has dropped off...
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jeffbanke
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 6:07 pm
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Thanks :-)
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jeffbanke
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Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 6:11 pm
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| mirage3 wrote: | | jeffbanke wrote: | | Another introduced species that have now been farmed, this group of male Red deer have had their antlers cut off while in velvet. The antlers are sold to Asian clients who believe there are some medical benefits, while much of the venison is sold to European clients, in particular Germany and some to the US |
...and if cut off without anesthetics (in Canada it is mandatory to have a vet. present to do so when cutting the antlers) it causes great pain to the deer as the nerves endings are still live in the velvet... but they are not when they normally shed their antlers once long after the velvet has dropped off... |
Not sure how they do it in NZ, but I cannot believe that they have a vet there to do it, just too many to do so.
Since antlers are bone, I don't think there are any nerves running through them, although since the velvet is skin in essence, there may well be some nerves there. However, none of the animals look like the are suffering, much in the same way when a wound heals over we stop feeling any pain, so I would imagine the deer do not feel pain or anything after a couple of days.
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