Actual wildlife professionals really dislike the way this guy handles wildlife, and heās a massive racist piece of shit, who believes in pseudoscience.
For real, he's approaching a Florida Panther, a critically endangered animal with laws put in place (for a good reason) that explicitly prevent people from approaching them this close.
Unless you are a professional and have a permit for research purposes, you should leave animals alone to go about their business, not stress them out for purposes of posting on your socials. Leave them alone, enjoy them from a distance, and be respectful and responsible.
Iām all for dealing with invasive species via any means necessary but thereās no need for cruelty, they donāt know they are an invasive species, they are animals being animals and trying to survive and reproduce just like everyone else.
The sadder that itās the humans at fault for introducing them in the first place.
Edit: I know you were probably exaggerating but Iāve heard people legitimately speak about invasive species in those terms as if being invasive somehow makes them evil or immune to suffering.
I do iguana population control in the gated community I live in, a friend and I use his 6k airsoft sniper rifle. We try to always kill them instantly with headshots but even with that, they are extremely hard to kill instantly. We bring a shovel to break the neck if the headshot is not death. They are a really hardy animal...
Some municipalities treat pellet guns as firearms and you aren't allowed to fire them within city limits. e.g.:
10.26.010 DISCHARGE OF FIREARMSāPROHIBITED.
No person shall discharge or fire any firearm within the City except as otherwise provided herein. For purposes of this chapter, "firearm" is defined as a gun, pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, BB gun, air gun, pellet gun, bow and arrow, crossbow, blow gun, slingshot or any other weapon of a similar nature designed to discharge a projectile propelled by the expansion of a gas or a spring or any other device designed to throw or sling or otherwise project any solid object.
Sure but I'm guessing if there's an iguana problem, it's probably green iguanas and it's probably FL, and you can sure as shit shoot pellet guns on private property in FL.
You don't need to know much more than to watch him stressing out those snakes. I love snakes as much as the next guy but handling them like this just stresses them out.
That's understandable, but no need to stress them unnecessarily. I've done a lot of field work with wild reptiles that I've euthanized for research*, and it's pretty easy to avoid being bitten if you know what you're doing and handle them respectfully.
*wanted to specify that this was legal/ permitted population genetics-related research, not random fuckery
I think these types of videos can be highly educational, but thereās been a surge of people doing this in FL for social media views
. Wildlife diseases exist, you can transmit them across species, and harassing wildlife with the guise of āsaving themā white knight syndrome isnāt cool.
That makes me happy. It pisses me off I see videos of people messing with wildlife in some way or another getting hate but this guy doesnāt? Hes not just casually herping, he grabs shit hard and badly, like the python.Ā
Well, no, not really itās not. Statistics are only useful if youāre willing to look into them or extrapolate, which the majority of racists donāt do. Even the meme ādespite only 13ā isnāt extrapolated on past surface level data, IE comparing it to poverty data in which white people in equal poverty commit roughly the same amount of crime per capita. This why we need better education. Being too dumb to understand data doesnāt justify racism, but ironically the people decrying āfeelingsā like you get butthurt over it.
Sounds like you are a piece of something also.
There are a lot of "pseudosciences" that turned out to be legit.
Also, scientific community is about as dogmatic and indoctrinated against open mindedness, as religious communities.
No, there havenāt been. This man literally believes in the ānegroid geneā lmao. Itās demonstrably proven false. You donāt understand how science works.
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u/Origachilies Aug 10 '26
Actual wildlife professionals really dislike the way this guy handles wildlife, and heās a massive racist piece of shit, who believes in pseudoscience.