Comment on Double standards

• Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People get tigers and lions so I don’t think a peacock is much harder to acquire. Also according to Wikipedia:

  The green peafowl is in demand for private and home aviculture and threatened by the pet trade, feather collectors and hunters for meat and targeted.

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  • mienshao@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Lol just admit you got it wrong, why argue? You said peacocks are endangered, and they’re not. Just say oops and move on.

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    • Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here’s the thing. You said a “peacocks are endangered.” Is Green peafowl in the same genus? Yes. No one’s arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies peacocks, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls Green peafowl peacocks. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing. If you’re saying “peacocks” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Pavonini, which includes things from indian peafowl to mbulus to green peafowl. So your reasoning for calling a peacocks endangered is because random people “call the ornamental animals peacocks?” Let’s get mandarin ducks in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A green peafowl is a green peafowl and a member of the pavo genus. But that’s not what you said. You said peacocks are endangered, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the pavonini tribe endangered, which means you’d call indian peacocks, congo peafowl, and other peacocks endangered, too. Which you said you don’t. It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

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      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A peacock is a crow.

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        Damn, Unidan in Lemmy? Who woulda thought.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They recognized a blind spot in their knowledge, did some learning, then reported back with what they learned. Then you yelled at them? It’s not like they were being combative.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t find any mention of the specific species of peafowl the man had. My personal guess is that it’s just a stock image of a peacock. None of the articles below mention the species, but one does have the same mugshot.

      apnews.com/…/peacocks-killed-florida-man-arrested…

      nypost.com/…/florida-man-arrested-for-allegedly-k…

      cbsnews.com/…/florida-man-eats-pet-peacocks-dispu…

      Quoting the AP article,

      The 61-year-old man from Hudson, Florida, was arrested last week on a third-degree felony charge of aggravated animal cruelty, according to an affidavit from the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.

      The man told investigators that he had killed the two peacocks because his neighbor kept feeding them. He had written the neighbor a letter telling her that he would continue to kill his pet peacocks if she kept feeding them “to prove a point,” according to the affidavit, which didn’t say how many peacocks he kept.

      The man “admitted to killing the bird by cutting the bird’s neck out of spite, then bleeding it out, and then later eating the bird after cooking it on a frying pan,” the affidavit said.

      So it doesn’t seem so simple as him merely getting arrested for deciding to eat one of his peafowl.

      Killing an endangered animal and cruelty to animals are separate statutes. So I think it’s safe to safe it’s not an endangered peafowl.

      • www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=D…
      • www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=D… “level four violations” are also third degree felonies.

      I don’t care enough to pull the man’s actual court records and see if he was also charged with Intentional killing or wounding of any species designated as endangered, threatened, or of special concern.

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