Maybe some new top predator will come along to remedy all the deficiencies you describe.
Posted on 07/28/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT by grundle
Cecil the lion, a famous black-maned resident of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park, died at the hands of an American dentist, conservationists claim.
They say Walter Palmer paid $50,000 to hunt and kill Cecil with a bow and arrow. The incident occurred around July 6, with a professional hunting outfit reportedly luring Cecil outside the boundaries of the protected reserve using a dead animal as bait.
“Mr. Palmer shot Cecil with a bow and arrow but this shot didn't kill him,” Johnny Rodrigues, chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, said in a statement. “They tracked him down and found him 40 hours later when they shot him with a gun. Cecil, who was known all over the world would have earned millions of dollars just from sightseeing. Walter Palmer apparently paid $50,000 for the kill."
It wasn’t the first kill for Palmer, who has multiple photos posted on the website Trophy Hunt America showing the Minnesota resident posing with dead lions, rhinos, water buffalo, warthogs, and other animals.
The Telegraph is reporting from two independent sources that Palmer was indeed the hunter listed on the permit documents, and a spokesperson for Palmer told the news outlet that Palmer believes he is the one responsible for the lion’s death.
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There is noevidence that he knew there was anything special about the lion. Yes, he killed it for fun but in so doing, the carcass fed locals and the permit fee helps keep the park in operation so that other lions survive to entertain tourists.
Bingo! Dr. Dentist will get his rocks off bragging to all his buddies how he bravely took this lion.
They're great at managing animals? Uh huh. Yet unable to control or manage their own government, big city rat infestations, debt, money, borders or even things like never ending traffic jams.
Okie dokie~
I don’t think he’ll brag much, after this...
-JT
There ya go!
Maybe some new top predator will come along to remedy all the deficiencies you describe.
Cecil was on a reserve; he didn’t need any favors like that.
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For health reasons, red meat is our best dietary choice.
No B-12 without it.
Not enough fat to feed our brains and heart without it.
Cats are forbidden to eat.
The lion was outside of the preserve.
The carcass didn’t feed anyone; it was left to lay where it was tracked after 39 hours of agony.
Just the trophy was taken.
The cat was lured out of the reserve, and the “hunter” knew it.
Were you born omniscient, or did you become that way?
How did the hunter know it?
Because he paid them to do it fool!
You'd rather have the bobcat eating your pets, idiot? You're whining about nuisance predators that are nowhere close to extinction.
You have much to learn.
http://luxpresso.com/news-time-n-style/the-lions-share-exotic-lions-meat-for-1000/11313
Look up fish, clams, other shellfish, octopus, caviar. Very rich in B12.
I’m not suggesting that people *should* stop eating warm-blooded meat. I’m just predicting that eventually, we will, for the most part.
Don’t worry; you won’t be alive, then. Meat-eating has a long life to go, yet.
-JT
Where does it say he paid the guides to lure a parks favorite lion outside of the park?
Stupid should burn.
You have NO clue how much pain the lion was in. The shot was not meant to wound him. Every hunter (excepting maybe the few hyper-morons) practices often and takes great pride in a kill-shot. The quicker the kill, the better. If his shot was off so much that the lion had to be tracked for another 40 hours, that could easily have meant that the first shot may have been nothing more than a nuisance to the lion. You have no idea, any more than I do, but your need to anthropomorphize the animal, because someone said that it had its name in the news here and there, makes it clear that you're emoting, and not thinking. If the dentist broke a law (by inducing the guides to tempt a "famous" lion out of its protected area... which seems unlikely, especially since he is openly admitting to the kill), then he should be punished appropriately... but all of this hand-wringing over a single kill, on a hunting safari, of a non-endangered animal that is legal to kill and is advertised as the focus of many hunting safaris, is simply ludicrous. It was a lion that someone gave a name, nothing more. Where did you whine about the numerous other lions that have been taken in the weeks since, that didn't have names and inches of newsprint? Oh, you didn't? Okay then, that shows what your actual focus is then, now doesn't it?
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