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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2022-08-03 11:44 am

"Be safe now! Stay away from cars!"

...listen, lady, if you want the wild turkeys to stay safe and avoid cars, maybe you should not make a habit of feeding them bread from your car.

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[personal profile] pauamma 2022-07-30 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
May be even safer for them not to be fed bread at all.
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[personal profile] lilysea 2022-07-30 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s ubiquitous in human history. What drives a parent to kill a baby?

I've often wondered how common child-siblings killing other child-siblings has been between, say, 1900 and 2022.

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[personal profile] lilysea 2022-07-31 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Random musings inspired by news stories.

It occurred to me that a lot of siblings-killing-siblings might be disguised as natural deaths by the parents if they possibly could, in order to protect the surviving child.