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In response to increasing questions and pressure to eliminate forms of animal killing critical to wildlife management, Clemson scientists worked with a group of global experts to spell out the 10 reasons why humans kill animals, and why it is unavoidable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Wild harvest or food acquisition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Human health and safety<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Agriculture and aquaculture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Urbanisation and industrialisation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Wildlife control<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Threatened species conservation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Recreation, sport or entertainment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Mercy or compassion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Cultural and religious practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Research, education and testing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While for many people these reasons are common sense, for others they are not, and we hope our paper\u00a0leads to a constructive dialogue that starts with accepting that human existence on Earth is dependent on animal killing. Once we as a society accept that we cannot stop animal killing entirely, we can hopefully focus on important nuances of animal welfare and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lead author Ben Allen has written an excellent profile of the article for The Conversation<\/a>, and the full version of the article can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to increasing questions and pressure to eliminate forms of animal killing critical to wildlife management, Clemson scientists worked with a group of global experts to spell out the 10 reasons why humans kill animals, and why it is unavoidable. 1. Wild harvest or food acquisition 2. Human health and safety 3. Agriculture and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":11,"date":"2022-10-04T20:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/?p=11"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:34:25","slug":"new-study-published-by-clemson-researchers-sheds-light-on-what-coyotes-eat-across-their-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/new-study-published-by-clemson-researchers-sheds-light-on-what-coyotes-eat-across-their-range\/","title":{"rendered":"New study published by Clemson researchers sheds light on what coyotes eat across their range"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the southeastern US, coyotes are blamed for a lot of wildlife management problems, ranging from eating wild turkey nestlings to limited white-tailed deer populations.\u00a0 So Clemson graduate student Alex Jensen set out to ask how different coyotes in the southeast are from coyotes across their range.<\/p>\n

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In a new paper published in the international peer-reviewed journal Mammal Review<\/a>, Alex found that coyotes largely eat small mammals, vegetation, rabbits, and ungulates. They have more diverse diets in spring and where human footprint is greater.<\/p>\n

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They also have different diets across their range, eating more ungulates in temperate forests, where they coexist with wolves, and where there is snow – suggesting scavenging is important.<\/p>\n

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Collectively, Alex’s findings emphasise the need for continued local or regional studies to understand the highly variable ecological effects of coyotes within the diverse ecosystems they currently inhabit and are poised to inhabit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the southeastern US, coyotes are blamed for a lot of wildlife management problems, ranging from eating wild turkey nestlings to limited white-tailed deer populations.\u00a0 So Clemson graduate student Alex Jensen set out to ask how different coyotes in the southeast are from coyotes across their range. In a new paper published in the international […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4037,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":10,"date":"2021-10-04T20:23:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T20:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/?p=10"},"modified":"2022-10-04T20:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:25:20","slug":"clemson-conducting-multi-year-big-game-research-on-private-lands-in-the-piedmont-of-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.clemson.edu\/boonecrockett\/clemson-conducting-multi-year-big-game-research-on-private-lands-in-the-piedmont-of-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson conducting multi-year big game research on private lands in the piedmont of South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"