King Juan Carlos breaks a hip hunting elephants in Botswana

Spain News ^ | April 14, 2012

[jonascord]

Point taken. Do they accept you as human?

Research the Downing Effect. It might provide some explanation for your current semi-hominid status.

[Cvengr]

Quite a fall to do that kind of damage.

Yes, but what was the elephant doing up in the tree in the first place? ;^)

[Stormdog]

“Research the Downing Effect. It might provide some explanation”

I will. Thank you.

[Cuttnhorse]

Stop confusing your fellow FReepers with facts!

[Cuttnhorse]

Hunters have saved the African elephant. Your ignorance is what's ugly and heartless.

You clearly don't understand FReepers...most have no idea that the large numbers of elephants in many areas of Africa are causing huge problems for the animals due to starvation and the fact that their increased numbers are pushing them into populated areas surrounding the game parks. Human-elephant encounters never end well.

While I admire elephants a great deal, and have a deep reverence for all animals, and am not a hunter, there is a legitimate need for culling herds through permitted hunting...just like managing elk and deer herds.

[Vision]

It costs about $30k to hunt an elephant. Those dollars buy land for the animals and management improvements like water wells.

[livius]

I definitely wouldn’t criticize him for hunting! Although the left, here as in Spain, certainly does.

He’s clearly no Franco, but even Franco knew that things were going to change after his death...and the first person the Spanish elected after his death was a Socialist, or at any rate, a member of a predecessor of the current socialist party.

In the Spanish constitution, the king has virtually no power, so regardless of Juan Carlos’ opinions on anything, like any constitutional monarchy based on a parliamentary syste, Spain is governed by whatever party has a majority or can form a coalition.