Weather conditions and natural disasters

Animals living in the wild must face many challenges from the moment they are born or hatch from their eggs. Weather conditions and natural disasters can have devastating effects on their wellbeing or cause them to die in painful or frightening ways. Large animals who run to safety and birds who can fly away make up only a small percentage of these animals. Smaller animals have even greater difficulty because they cannot escape. In this video, you’ll find out how weather conditions and natural disasters affect individuals of many different types.

This is part of module 1 of our course about wild animal suffering. In this course, you’ll learn about the plight of animals living in the wild. Find out what the lives of the most numerous animals — invertebrates — are actually like and get an overview of evidence of their sentience (consciousness). Hear what the contemporary debates in animal ethics are and how they relate to showing moral consideration for nonhuman animals. Find out about a proposed field of research called welfare biology, the study of the wellbeing of animals living in the wild.

If you’re interested in learning more about the subject, we have many articles on our website on the topics covered in the course.

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Videos:

· Great Grey Owl-Hunting in a Snow Storm. Alberta. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

· Snow Crows in Rocky Mountain National Park. Wcccpartners. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

· Adorable baby bucks Bailey, Colorado 12 13 15. Maureen Young. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSGf-VWIpmAhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/skersting/38977565075/in/photolist-22ojd94

· Toad.Tommy Joan Crow

· Freak Hail Storm Jan 2018. Infotek3000. CC BY-NC 3.0 Unported Licence.
 https://vimeo.com/253722600
 
· Liguria: Flash Floods Near Pignone / Cinque Terre / La Spezia. Eckard Ritter. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

· ScienceCasts: Taking the Wild out of Wildfire. ScienceAtNASA. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

· Australia is on fire today. Zoi Pana. Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

Photos:

· Frozen fish. Steven Kersting. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Generic Licence

· Snake. Tommy Joan Crow

· Snake 2. Tommy Joan Crow

· Baby Hawaiian green sea turtles. Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
CC BY-NC 2.0 Generic Licence. 
bit.ly/2xw92Qk

· Wet Crow. Oliver Nispel. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Generic Licence.
bit.ly/2KcRgnT

· Corvus Corax Skeleton. anonphotography.com. CC BY-NC 2.0 Generic Licence.
bit.ly/2zfnFIh

· Horse Rescue. PINKE. CC BY-NC 2.0 Generic Licence.
bit.ly/2XQmZ6b

· Deer comes through the Fence. Louisiana GOHSEP. CC BY-NC 2.0 Generic Licence.
bit.ly/3eDx1Of
 
· Fledgling.wanderingnome. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Generic Licence.

· Dead fish are a source of food for bacteria, which then extract oxygen from the river. The Conversation. CC BY-ND 4.0 International Licence.
https://theconversation.com/how-is-oxygen-sucked-out-of-our-waterways-109795

· 20130817-FS-UNK-0090. U.S. Department of Agriculture. CC BY 2.0 Generic Licence.
bit.ly/2ypZMgF

· Desert cottontail. Renee Grayson. CC BY 2.0 Generic Licence. https://www.flickr.com/photos/132295270@N07/47979957733/in/photolist-XHXCZC-2g6PPQz-27s7A9c-WKn43e-2g6PFAx-2g6PXAN-YPak3s-M3uXvD-Yq54EX-ykaTay-y5SpSQ-sxNMJE

· North American Wild Horses. Rennett Stowe. CC BY 2.0 Generic Licence
https://bit.ly/3euTiNT

· Burrowing Owl After Fire. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. CC BY 2.0 Generic Licence
https://medium.com/@USFWS/burrowing-owl-surfaces-after-the-fire-aa870e34970

· BatRescue_Australia_JMcArthur_2017-8960. Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals
https://www.weanimalsarchive.org/#/search;imageid=7395

· Music: Falling Into Presence. Borrtex. Under CC BY-NC 4.0 International.
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Borrtex

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