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1. petshun.com › are-opossums-protected-in-californiaAre Opossums Protected In California? A Closer Look At Their ...

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   Feb 2, 2024 · In such cases, a property owner may obtain a permit from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to remove the opossum. Violating the laws protecting opossums in California can result in both criminal and civil penalties. Criminal penalties can include fines of up to $1,000 and imprisonment for up to six months.

   • Conservation status: No Special Status
   • Protection: Protected

   • Hunting season: Open-closed (legal hunting with restrictions)
   • Species: Opossum

2. www.latimes.com › opinion › storyOpinion: No partying with hippopotamuses, and other obscure L ...

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   Jun 12, 2023 · Column: No partying with hippopotamuses, and other obscure L.A. laws. It is illegal in Los Angeles to display a hippopotamus at a loud or unruly house party. Section 53.49 of the Los Angeles ...

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3. nrm.dfg.ca.gov › FileHandlerRestricted Species Laws and Regulations DFW 1312d - California

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   State of California – Department of Fish and Wildlife RESTRICTED SPECIES LAWS AND REGULATIONS MANUAL 671 DFW 1312d (REV. 04/08/21) Page 1 of 67 Restricted Species Laws and Regulations Importation, Transportation and Possession of Wild Animals – Manual 671 This document is designed to provide essential information about live restricted animals.

4. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › how-the-us-almostHow the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   May 30, 2023 · The only one way to solve both problems at once, argued Louisiana Representative Robert F. Broussard, was to embrace hippopotamus ranching. On March 24, 1910, Broussard stood before the House ...

5. cawildlife.org › terrestrial › opossums-more-friendOpossums: More Friend Than Foe | California Wildlife Center

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   Feb 21, 2017 · By Anna Noble, Administrative Assistant California Wildlife Center admits an average of 250 opossums yearly. Of this number, 40-50 are adults, while the remainder are orphans. Most adult opossums who are admitted have experienced bodily injury due to trapping, predation, gun shots, or encounters with vehicles on roadways. Joeys (the word for baby opossums) that

6. wildlife.ca.gov › Conservation › InvasivesLaws and Regulations regarding Invasive Species

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   It is a matrix that shows the status or ratings of these species under various state and federal statutes and policies. CDFW Invasive Species Program P.O. Box 944209, Sacramento CA 94244-2090 Invasives@wildlife.ca.gov. Fisheries Branch 1010 Riverside Parkway, West Sacramento, CA 95605 | Fisheries@wildlife.ca.gov. Fishing Directory.

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   Is it illegal to display a hippopotamus at a house party?

   • It is illegal in Los Angeles to display a hippopotamus at a loud or unruly house party. Section 53.49 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code is a classic of lawyerly syntax and needless verbosity. It appears on a sign outside my local public library branch and reads as follows:

   Column: No partying with hippopotamuses, and other obscure L.A. laws

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   How many opossums are in California?

   • By Anna Noble, Administrative Assistant California Wildlife Center admits an average of 250 opossums yearly. Of this number, 40-50 are adults, while the remainder are orphans. Most adult opossums who are admitted have experienced bodily injury due to trapping, predation, gun shots, or encounters with vehicles on roadways.

   Opossums: More Friend Than Foe | California Wildlife Center

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   Would hippos be tamed?

   • Irwin and Broussard answered both queries with an emphatic yes. Yes, hippos would be easily tamed. Yes, they would be fenced in, living safely on five- or six-acre waterfront farms. Yes, hippos would relish dining on water hyacinths.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   What would hippo meat taste like if the Hippo bill was passed?

   • Irwin, for his part, testified that hippo meat tasted like a “combination of pork and beef.” If the Hippo Bill were passed, no American, whatever their socioeconomic status, would ever have to eat a meatless meal again.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   Do Hippo poop?

   • Hippos may not spend much time eating while in the water, but they do poop prolifically—an activity that creates an ecological threat as weighty as the one Broussard was trying to solve in the first place. Hippo waste adds to water’s nutritional load, propelling the overgrowth of algae while simultaneously killing native plants and fish.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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   When did humans eat hippopotamus?

   • (Stone tools found in Kenya’s Homa Peninsula suggest early humans were butchering the animals as early as 2.6 million to 3 million years ago.) “As to the quality of this animal as food,” Duquesne added, “I just want to call your attention to the vigorous race of Dutchmen … [that] lived on hippopotamus” during the Boer War.

   How the U.S. Almost Became a Nation of Hippo Ranchers

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8. animallaw.foxrothschild.com › 2021/10/28 › what-isWhat is the Legal Status of the Hippopotamuses in the United ...

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   Oct 28, 2021 · By Nancy E. Halpern, D.V.M. on October 28, 2021. According to Animal Legal Defense Fund, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has recognized hippos as legal persons for the first time in the United States, because a Community of Hippopotamuses Living in the Magdalena River is a litigant in a lawsuit filed in Columbia and ...