As beautiful as nature is, it can also be brutal. The hunter and the hunted. Herbivore and carnivore. We humans can have a problem with it all. Who wants to see cute chicks eaten by vicious hyenas? Researchers do. Baby hyenas do. Conservationists do. The following vid might not show such a scene. But it […]
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Let the site of Rebel Voice state a strongly held opinion, clearly and without ambiguity. There should be no use, abuse, or killing of cetaceans, ever. Whales, porpoises and dolphins are highly intelligent creatures. We do not know exactly how clever they are. We judge them, as we do with…
Wolves are the stuff or our nightmares. Humans have long had a fractious relationship with this most determined of predators. They are usually portrayed hunting exhausted prey across snowy tundra or, when not searching for food, are shown howling, usually at the moon. Found only in the northern hemisphere, wolves are extremely social creatures. They […]
OK, maybe a Hyena hunting a cute iddy biddy baby Wildebeest is not the most appetizing way to spend your day. But hold up a mo! It doesn’t always end in sadness. Maybe the hyena really enjoys the flesh of this animal, and loves to bring home the meat for its own young who are […]
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Hyrax are a rodent-looking animal that are more closely related to elephants. They weigh between 2 and 5 kg and live only in Africa and the Middle East. They are mentioned in the bible, being described as not kosher. Eagles don’t care. Eagles don’t do kosher. Eagles love to eat…
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The spectacle of Grizzly bears fishing for salmon in Alaska is one of nature’s great events. Great shaggy beasts gather to watch the plump fish as they fight their way upstream to spawn. The bears try to ignore those shaggy beasts as they focus on catching the salmon, but the…
This is a battle of the giants! Well, OK, only if you’re a seven-year-old boy with a great imagination. But still, it’s a fine contest between two formidable predators of both the insect and arachnid worlds. The techniques employed by these little warriors is a lesson in warfare. Nature has much to teach us although, […]
Males everywhere like to fight, especially when there’s a female to impress. OK, so we humans are supposed to have evolved beyond that, but check out any nightclub and pub around Ireland at the weekend and you will see that we are still fairly savage. Do the women in our lives like us to fight. […]
It’s one big carnivorous dinosaur trying to kill and eat another big carnivorous dinosaur; how can you resist? To put it in human terms, try to imagine a scaly Donald Trump (not so difficult) fighting bare knuckle with a scaly Angela Merkel. Many among you will claim that such a match-up would be disgraceful and […]
The world of insects can be a fascinating place. Ants in particular, and their societies, are full of incident and accident. These complex communities can be found across the planet but are all intricately structured along practical lines. It could be said that ants are among the most prudent and pragmatic of all species. They […]
Dog versus bear. Bears, including the black variety, are omnivores. This means they will eat just about anything, except your mother-in-law’s roast chicken which looks like great-aunt Edna after her cremation. Although a fully grown wolf is a handful for a black bear, wolf pups are not, and the roguish bears will take a pup when […]
Mountain lions, also known as Cougars and Pumas, are a large and aggressive predator of the Americas, most notably North America. They are not known to be in either the Democratic or Republican parties but perhaps should be, given that introduction. They hunt a variety of prey in the mountains and hills of the Rockies […]
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