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  2. Eating live animals - Wikipedia

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    Eating live animals is the practice of humans or other sentient species eating animals that are still alive. It is a traditional practice in many East Asian food cultures. Animals may also be eaten alive for shock value. Eating live animals, or parts of live animals, may be unlawful in certain jurisdictions under animal cruelty laws.

  3. Food and drink prohibitions - Wikipedia

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    Eating oysters raw, ikizukuri, and other similar cases would be considered a violation of this in Jewish law. [107] Examples of the eating of animals that are still alive include eating live seafood, such as "raw oyster on the half shell" and ikizukuri (live fish). Sashimi using live animals has been banned in some countries.

  4. Human uses of reptiles - Wikipedia

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    Human uses of reptiles have for centuries included both symbolic and practical interactions. Symbolic uses of reptiles include accounts in mythology , religion, and folklore as well as pictorial symbols such as medicine's serpent-entwined caduceus .

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    Enjoy this week’s top reader feedback. Not All Reptiles Eat Roaches Great article, but I would. We love to hear from our readers. Whether you have a story idea, article feedback or simply want ...

  6. Live food - Wikipedia

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    Live food is commonly used as feed for a variety of species of exotic pets and zoo animals, ranging from crocodilians (crocodiles and alligators) to various snakes, turtles, lizards and frogs, but also including other non-reptilian, non-amphibian species such as birds and mammals (for instance, pet skunks, which are omnivorous mammals, can ...

  7. Kosher animals - Wikipedia

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    If a bird kills other animals to get its food, eats meat, or is a dangerous bird, then is not kosher, a predatory bird is unfit to eat, raptors like the eagles, hawks, owls and other hunting birds are not kosher, vultures and other carrion-eating birds are not kosher either.

  8. List of dangerous snakes - Wikipedia

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    Engelmann and Obst (1981) list value of 0.12 mg/kg SC, with an average venom yield of 120 mg per bite and a maximum record of 400 mg. [50] To demonstrate just how deadly this species is, an estimate was made on the number of mice and adult human fatalities it is capable of causing in a single bite that yields the maximum dose of 400 mg. Based ...

  9. Islamic dietary laws - Wikipedia

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    Certain animals are considered haram, including land animals without blood, including all insects except locusts. Most reptiles are also considered haram, as well as most pests (hasharat al-Ardh) such as mice and rats. Differences of opinion exist as to whether the consumption of horses, mules, and donkeys is permitted.