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An American Dentist Killed Zimbabwe’s Famous Lion
yahoo.com ^ | July 28, 2015 | Taylor Hill

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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To: Jamestown1630
That’s not the same as a rich man killing a famed lion in Zimbabwe, just for ‘fun’.

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.

101 posted on 07/28/2015 6:44:26 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Jamestown1630

Bingo! Dr. Dentist will get his rocks off bragging to all his buddies how he bravely took this lion.


102 posted on 07/28/2015 6:46:07 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: fso301
Then along came a new top predator that was so successful that its population grew and grew until it began to recognize that it could be even more successful by managing its food sources

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~

103 posted on 07/28/2015 6:49:53 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SgtHooper

I don’t think he’ll brag much, after this...

-JT


104 posted on 07/28/2015 6:50:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

There ya go!


105 posted on 07/28/2015 6:50:57 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2
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.

Maybe some new top predator will come along to remedy all the deficiencies you describe.


106 posted on 07/28/2015 6:56:32 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Cecil was on a reserve; he didn’t need any favors like that.
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107 posted on 07/28/2015 6:57:01 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Jamestown1630

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.


108 posted on 07/28/2015 7:00:14 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: dragnet2
Yep, all the morons who say they make heart shots for instant kills are completely full of BS. That NEVER happens. The animal always dies SLOW. What I usually do is knife them in the head. Hunting sucks all ass but participating in the assembly line torture and killing of cows, pigs and birds is even worse. And this freakin geek Ted Nugent treats it like a New years eve celebration. Why? Because he's a sociopath in my opinion. Taking a life means nothing to him. Here he is after killing 3 racoons. What the F is he killing racoons for? Because they went through his garbage? Killing comes to easy to this guy, I absolutely guarantee you he will eventually kill a human ala Phil Spector


109 posted on 07/28/2015 7:00:34 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: SaveFerris
If the lion was posing no threat and in a game preserve.

The lion was outside of the preserve.

110 posted on 07/28/2015 7:01:17 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

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.


111 posted on 07/28/2015 7:03:05 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: fso301; SaveFerris

The cat was lured out of the reserve, and the “hunter” knew it.


112 posted on 07/28/2015 7:04:20 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
That NEVER happens. The animal always dies SLOW.

Were you born omniscient, or did you become that way?

113 posted on 07/28/2015 7:05:00 PM PDT by fso301
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To: editor-surveyor; SaveFerris
The cat was lured out of the reserve, and the “hunter” knew it.

How did the hunter know it?

114 posted on 07/28/2015 7:06:25 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

Because he paid them to do it fool!


115 posted on 07/28/2015 7:09:13 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
What the F are you going to do with a Bobcat idiot?

You'd rather have the bobcat eating your pets, idiot? You're whining about nuisance predators that are nowhere close to extinction.

116 posted on 07/28/2015 7:18:45 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: editor-surveyor
The carcass didn’t feed anyone

You have much to learn.

http://luxpresso.com/news-time-n-style/the-lions-share-exotic-lions-meat-for-1000/11313

117 posted on 07/28/2015 7:25:14 PM PDT by fso301
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To: editor-surveyor

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


118 posted on 07/28/2015 7:27:03 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: editor-surveyor
Because he paid them to do it fool!

Where does it say he paid the guides to lure a parks favorite lion outside of the park?

119 posted on 07/28/2015 7:27:10 PM PDT by fso301
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To: editor-surveyor
The carcass didn’t feed anyone; it was left to lay where it was tracked after 39 hours of agony.

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?

120 posted on 07/28/2015 7:31:15 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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