{"id":1961,"date":"2018-10-01T17:09:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2018-10-01T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T04:11:31","slug":"1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2018\/10\/1961\/","title":{"rendered":"using images to mis-inform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet, while it can be a godsend if you need to find something out (gotta love google maps for directions), can also be a wretched hive of wrongness &amp; misinformation. That misinformation can take many forms, but when it comes to 1080 it&#8217;s clear that those opposed to NZ&#8217;s use of this chemical firmly believe that a picture is worth a thousand words.<\/p>\n<p>Any picture. Thank goodness for the &#8216;reverse image search&#8217; function in google.<\/p>\n<p>For example, on the Facebook page for the group <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/New-Zealands-not-clean-green-351886364952193\/photos\/?ref=page_internal\">New Zealands not clean green<\/a><\/em>, in amongst photos of animals that may or may not have been killed by 1080, we find several of animals that weren&#8217;t. For example:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/351886364952193\/photos\/a.639162562891237\/1175916152549206\/?type=3&amp;theater\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fhlz2-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/38264041_1175916155882539_8912561467144798208_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&amp;oh=05f554c67d0b1ce0abd5011a187188d5&amp;oe=5C191BED\" alt=\"Image may contain: bird and outdoor\" width=\"431\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fairly obvious that this one was simply lifted straight off the internet &#8211; the shutterstock watermark should give it away! What&#8217;s more, in life this bird wouldn&#8217;t have come within cooee of sodium monofluoroacete &#8211; because <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_tit\">it&#8217;s a great tit (<em>Parus major<\/em>)<\/a>: a bird found in the UK &amp; Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The same&#8217;s true for this little creature:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/351886364952193\/photos\/a.733505833456909\/1214913485316139\/?type=3&amp;theater\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fhlz2-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/41714671_1214913495316138_776868736698155008_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&amp;oh=41a366dce46752ec86b15dd03cc9e7a0&amp;oe=5C1A4FD7\" alt=\"Image may contain: bird\" width=\"274\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again, this is not a species that has ever existed in New Zealand. It&#8217;s most likely a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/House_wren\">house wren<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Troglodytes aedon<\/em>), which is found in both North &amp; South America.<\/p>\n<p>And I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised to have found this one:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/351886364952193\/photos\/a.733505833456909\/1178238665650288\/?type=3&amp;theater\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fhlz2-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/38404861_1178238668983621_4651718618319421440_n.jpg?_nc_cat=102&amp;oh=adcdefcbc46710f2fdca4ca3908c3c38&amp;oe=5C21E9B7\" alt=\"Image may contain: outdoor and nature\" width=\"503\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anti-1080 groups are rather fond of claiming that these kiwi were all killed by 1080. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/new-zealand\/2018\/02\/photo-of-kiwi-killed-by-dogs-and-cats-passed-off-as-1080-poisoned-birds.html\">the photo was first released<\/a> by the Bay Bush Action group back in 2016 &#8211; the birds were collected in the Kerikeri region, after they were killed by dogs or by cars. (Blunt force trauma &amp; dog attacks both leave recognisable traces behind, after all.) Bay Bush Action do some excellent conservation work in the Bay of Islands and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BayBushAction\/photos\/a.236323743057452\/1129249003764917\/?type=3\">are understandably annoyed<\/a> that their image has been mis-used in this way.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BayBushAction\/photos\/a.236323743057452\/1129249003764917\/?type=3<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can only say that using images in this misleading way doesn&#8217;t exactly add to the strength of the &#8216;anti&#8217; argument.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet, while it can be a godsend if you need to find something out (gotta love google maps for directions), can also be a wretched hive of wrongness &amp; misinformation. 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