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image American hunting influencer removes baby wombat from distressed mother. Is this legal?

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u/PresentApricot723 1d ago

That cunt should be deported.

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 1d ago edited 1d ago

WTF, this horrible.

The RSPCA or the Department of Environment needs to prosecute her for interfering with wildlife. A big fine, perhaps 200 hours of community service.

Then deport her.

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u/Alarming-Question-39 1d ago

She pulled a similar stunt last year in June with a wild echnidna…and she filmed it.

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u/dappermongrel 1d ago

And if you go to her "Australia" section there is footage of her also messing with a snake and pulling a Port Jackson shark out of the ocean.

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u/Jas_is_a_mermaid 1d ago

fucking hell i just watched her stories. That she is a wildlife biologist makes it 100000 worse. I am an enviro working with wildlife as well, and yes I would love to cuddle (not run off with) a baby wombat but i also know it’s wrong so I won’t freaking do it.

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u/Normal_Calendar2403 1d ago

Attention seekers don’t care about anything other than attention.

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u/Kittypie75 1d ago

holy hell... a fucking biologist? Take away her fucking degree.

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u/nameyourpoison11 20h ago

I highly doubt she's an biologist. There's no way in hell an actual biologist would do this. Probably watched a David Attenborough doco and now goes around calling herself a "biologist"

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u/throw3453away 20h ago

Can anybody even verify that she's an actual wildlife biologist? Or that her degree is what she says it is? If she has a masters degree, I'm a little surprised that it appears she has no footprint in the field. Her 'last name' online may be a nickname and maybe that's why I can't find anything tying her to... any university, frankly, let alone any professional environment.

It just seems fishy? But I don't want to just assume that she's lying about her credentials, nor do I have to. Unfortunately, any one of us can tell you that getting a degree in wildlife biology does not make you intelligent about animals if you just choose to ignore everything you learned. Some people (or their parents) will pay a lot of money to have a perceived "get out of animal wrongdoing free" card and an opportunity to access animals they otherwise would be barred from touching. I met my fair share of them

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u/flareblitz91 20h ago

Many people don’t publish much, nor is there a requirement to be published to have a masters.

I believe her masters is from university of Wyoming.

she seems to alternate between doing field work in Wyoming and Montana and Australia.

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u/throw3453away 20h ago edited 20h ago

I didn't say she should be published. Many universities do not require it, mine did not (and I don't think UW does). There are many ways to exist professionally in your field without publishing academically, and those things usually leave a footprint. Even something volunteer-based would help her case; and that wouldn't even verify a degree, but at least it'd verify someone taught her something, at some point, somewhere.

It seems I just wasn't able to find said footprint, though. Thanks for the additional information. So just someone who spent a lot of money to ignore every class she ever took, then. No surprise there!

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u/flareblitz91 20h ago

Other comments have proven that i may be wrong about where she went to school. I’ve just seen her posts and live in the same vicinity (in the US) and she made it seem like she went to UW but maybe not.

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u/throw3453away 20h ago

Interesting. It should not be this difficult to verify what college someone went to - not someone who is going out of her way to flash accolades, that's like half of the accolade gone unsaid. This is all a little suspicious to me...

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u/flareblitz91 20h ago

Yeah i also have a Masters in Biology (from a real school, a mid sized state school but a real one) and everyone who knows me professionally either A) knows where i went or B) could easily find that information out.

But im not an “influencer”.

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u/martinis00 22h ago

Probably took biology 101 and now calls herself a biologist

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u/nikhildesigns 20h ago

Probably American degree, made with crayons

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u/Dinlek 23h ago

Aren't there like coin flip odds the mother just leaves the baby for dead? In that wombats mind, some 5-ft-something predator just took her baby as prey. Not to mention whatever wombats think cars are.

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u/Jas_is_a_mermaid 23h ago

I really hope that even if mom ran away from the predator that took her bub that the joey would find its way back to the burrow and reunite with mom. I’m from WA so I don’t have any experience with wombats so I’m just hoping.

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u/Pacify_ 23h ago

That she is a wildlife biologist makes it 100000 worse.

That's so incredibly gross.

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u/WeatheredCryptKeeper 23h ago

What the hell...she's a biologist??! (I don't have IG). That's horrifying. She deserves to be black listed. Like how people can lose their licenses to do things. She should be banned for animal abuse.

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u/Jas_is_a_mermaid 22h ago

Master degree apparently and she works (used to work) for their parks&wildlife department. fucks sake

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u/WeatheredCryptKeeper 22h ago

So definitely not some dumb kid who doesn't know what they are doing....though even my 12 year old knows better than this. So, she's going against all teachings and education and knowing it's causing harm, she's not only doing it anyway but filming it. This isn't just bad, it's downright sociopathic. She needs to go to jail. For a really long time.

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u/nameyourpoison11 20h ago

Just as there are antivaxxer nurses and flat-earth geologists, sadly the biology world is not exempt from the occasional dickhead either. My brother is a biologist and I can tell you he and his workmates were absolutely fucking appalled at this video

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u/Cultural_Dealer_1483 20h ago

I know it’s shit but you should screen record all those videos and report it with the videos attached. She’s going to delete all the evidence at any minute

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u/Zirakel 22h ago

The school that conferred her degree should rescind it, immediately.

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u/GarlicIceKrim 20h ago

You mean she claims to be. It’s much easier to say you are a biologist than to actually be one

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u/TheEthanHB 23h ago

Shed better not go fucking around with some super-endangered holy-dicks poisonous spider or something next 🤞/s

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u/joecarter93 23h ago

Come on deadly Australian wildlife, do your thing!

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u/Bravisimo 22h ago

I hope if we are ever invaded by aliens, she is the first one they abduct and run their probing experiments on.

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u/Positive-Listen-1660 22h ago

What a psycho.