08-01-2015, 10:11 AM
(08-01-2015, 10:02 AM)Awful Llama Wrote: Then tigers be all like "What the **** am I doing in Zimbabwe?"
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I have no problem hunting if you will use the meat (like a deer hunter), or to control the population of some animals. But to trophy hunt is kind of useless. The age of that lion indicated he had very good genes to survive that long. Taking those top genes out of the gene pool hurts lions overall. And that's what trophy hunting does, takes the best animals out of the gene pool. Another unintended consequence is the repercussions for the cubs of that lion's pride. That male lion will no longer be there and other males will move in to claim those females. When they do, they will kill all the current cubs to bring the females back into heat. So not only did that hunter take any and all future genes of that lion out of existence, he also likely took out the current generation of those genes. Trophy hunting just blows overall.
