Ethical question: If a colleague killed a Federally listed species

XemaSab

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Tue Jun-13-06 09:18 AM
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Ethical question: If a colleague killed a Federally listed species

What would you do?

So the other day Emma, who is a biotoxicologist, was out doing elderberry surveys when she found a Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle. She picked it up and put it in a jar. A while later she decided it was thirsty so she put a sharpie in the jar, and the beetle keeled over and died.

I am not making this up.

(ps this is not a current colleague)

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Heidi

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Tue Jun-13-06 09:24 AM
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1. Are you even allowed by law to "capture" a federally listed species?

Yikes. Xema, if I decided to narc my friend out, I'd probably tell her honesty that I was going to do it.

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XemaSab

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Tue Jun-13-06 09:27 AM
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4. Oh, she's not my friend

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NV Whino

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Tue Jun-13-06 09:24 AM
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2. Okay, I understand

why putting the sharpie in the jar killed the critter, but why did she think putting the sharpie in the jar would kill its thirst?

:shrug:

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The Deacon

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Tue Jun-13-06 09:25 AM
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3. Why

Would she put a Sharpie in the jar if it was thirsty? Do Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetles drink ink?

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FSogol

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Tue Jun-13-06 09:29 AM
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5. Remind me to stop sniffing Sharpies at work. n/t

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William769

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Tue Jun-13-06 10:09 AM
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6. CALL HOMELAND SECURITY OR THE NSA!

:sarcasm:

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naturalselection

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Wed Jun-14-06 12:24 PM
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7. My question is:

If she was doing elderberry surveys, she should have been aware of the federally listed species she could possibly encounter, so why the hell did she put the beetle in a jar?

Anyone who does various ecological surveys (like me) knows there are other ways of documenting the existence and location of a federally listed species.

YOU shouldn't have to snitch on her, if she was ethical in the first place, she would acknowledge it to her superiors.

Another question, what did she do with the beetle after it died? Dump it out of the jar?:grr:

(Sorry, just a little irritated by this)

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