Invader of all things

@shshiju (10342)

Cochin, India

April 12, 2017 6:27am CST

There is Coco Plantation near our house. There are lot of cocos in the tree that had good market because of the chocolate market. Squirrels like the coco nuts very much and they eat before it ripe , so they farmer get loss in their products. They used a tricky

plan to get rid of the loss. They use toddy poison for squirrels and they were killed .

How sad to kill the squirrel for some profits. They have no documents for any piece of earth as man have. After all they also are the sons of Mother Nature.

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@jaboUK (64361)

• United Kingdom

12 Apr 17

Don't be too hard on ther farmers - they have to make a living. Killing the squirrels is no different to spraying crops with pesticide - we need the food that the farmers produce.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

12 Apr 17

I can understand your feelings Janet. But I don't think that the squirrel can damage all trees, may be it can destroy one or two for their food. We define our boarders but where they can live without boarders in forest???

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@jaboUK (64361)

• United Kingdom

12 Apr 17

@shshiju Oh yes, in their natural habitat they are fine.

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@ridingbet (66857)

• Philippines

12 Apr 17

wow, so many cocoa in a tree, much more in all those trees. our cacao tree is cut low, so more flowers.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

25 Apr 17

@Lupita234 Things are same spell it differently

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

26 Apr 17

@ridingbet Oh I see . We always pronounce it here Koko for the tree and Kokoka for the fruit.

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@ridingbet (66857)

• Philippines

26 Apr 17

@shshiju i think cocoa and cacao are the same, but cocoa here is the product of the roasted cacao seeds.

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@shaggin (71666)

• United States

1 May 17

Unfortunately if they are considered pests then that is usually what happens. Here we cannot kill bear out of specific hunting season but if you own a farm and they are getting into your crops you can kill them.

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@shaggin (71666)

• United States

1 May 17

@shshiju 8 bears were killed last season that I know of at a farm. They can put a huge dent in the farmers corn crops. If they sedate the bears and move them out of the area they just come back.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

1 May 17

Killing is not the ultimate method. There may be more options.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

1 May 17

@shaggin There are forest after 12 Kilometers from my home. King Kobra caught from the forest near by home are usually opened in the deep forest by the forest officials. I think the farmers can use the same thing than the cruelty.

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@PatZAnthony (14752)

• Charlotte, North Carolina

13 Apr 17

And the poison is on the plants then and people are supposed to harvest and process this with the poison?

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@PatZAnthony (14752)

• Charlotte, North Carolina

14 Apr 17

@shshiju That makes more sense. Sorry the squirrels are dealt with in this way. It would be nice if they could be trapped and released elsewhere.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

14 Apr 17

@PatZAnthony The Forrest officials do in the same matter about venomous snakes. But all are not kind in the same manner.

@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

13 Apr 17

No No Poison is placed separately in a plate. It is mixed with toddy. Squirrel like toddy very much.

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@LadyDuck (458230)

• Switzerland

18 Apr 17

It's so sad to kill animals for more profit. I do not think that the squirrels could damage the coco plantation.

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@LadyDuck (458230)

• Switzerland

25 Apr 17

@shshiju This is what I think, I have seen places with plenty of squirrels and they did not cause a great damage.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

25 Apr 17

@LadyDuck Yes, it is . We can understand squirrels but it is difficult to understand humans.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

25 Apr 17

That can damage at least at least one or two trees

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@DianneN (246906)

• United States

12 Apr 17

People need to eat!

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

18 Apr 17

What the squirrel???

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

18 Apr 17

@DianneN Co coca is not like cereals or vegetables . It is for business purpose. As the most wanted chocolates in world. For man's business motives vanish away the other creatures is not a good policy.

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@DianneN (246906)

• United States

18 Apr 17

@shshiju No, lol! Farmers have to do what they have to do to save their crops for people.

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@salonga (27775)

• Philippines

13 Apr 17

Here we call that coco tree, cacao but we have no squirrels that eat them. How sad that squirrels are poisoned for some profits.

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@salonga (27775)

• Philippines

20 Apr 17

@shshiju. Yes, but they are kept as pet and have to bought in pet shop.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

14 Apr 17

That's correct. Do you have no squirrels there?

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

23 Apr 17

@salonga We have so many here living in natural atmosphere.

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@lady1993 (27225)

• Philippines

25 Apr 17

Cococut? or Cocoa? Is that even legal? killing mammals for profit?

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

25 Apr 17

It's Cocoa. It's not legal They kills them by poisoning

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@SIMPLYD (90722)

• Philippines

26 Apr 17

It's sad that they have to resort to poison , in order to stop those squirells once and for all. Maybe there could be other ways, but not kill them. They are living things also.

We have lots of that at the backyard of my paresnts house. We call it cacao here.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

28 Apr 17

They are very Lovey one Some persons care the squirrel as pets

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@Tampa_girl7 (49010)

• United States

27 Apr 17

That is very sad that they killed the squirrels.

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

27 Apr 17

Yes it is another side of human cruelty.

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@jillybean1222 (6408)

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20 Apr 17

those plants look amazing. so colorful

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@responsiveme (22926)

• India

4 May 17

the squirrels are destroying the coconut here but hopefully they wont be poisoned.

@FayeHazel (40248)

• United States

17 Apr 17

It's too bad that they couldn't have thought of another way to deal with the squirrels

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@shshiju (10342)

• Cochin, India

18 Apr 17

Yes They can fear the squirrel with by many methods keep away from it.

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@FayeHazel (40248)

• United States

24 Apr 17

@shshiju Maybe to trap them and ship them somewhere far away would work