Imagine the skill lit takes to shoot one of these lumbering and defenseless animals. People who hunt them are world class athletes.
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Cahu (Old Spike)
I travelled to South Africa where elephants in the lower south parts of the Kruger park are considered overpopulated and its legal to hunt them (controlled hunting of course). Elephants when left unchecked (mainly due to the fall in number of predators) can destroy entire forests. You see, they scratch against the bark of the trees and kill them, clearing out entire forest areas and destroying entire habitats. I kid you not.
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Rakshir (Short Spike)
I'd prefer to think there are far too many humans. Fewer humans, more forests for them to populate. They evolved in an ecosystem that allowed for much more free movement - being forced into smaller territories, whilst maintaining older evolved behaviours is incompatible with the environment we've confined them to. If their behaviour wasn't a positive adaptive strategy, they'd have gone extinct a long time ago. Just like many other animals suffering because of human expansion; there's just no space left for the lives these creatures evolved to live in.
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Vic Jacoby (Member)
They don't go extinct, they just have dramatic rises and falls in population; the falls being massive starvation, a pretty hard way to go. Man's input helps maintain a healthy population level instead of the build up and collapses of your wonderful anti-human system.
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Kaolla (Long Spike)
That was awesome, I wonder how they managed to keep the rest of the family away so that they could help and film the little guy!
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Cahu (Old Spike)
With shotguns
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Kaolla (Long Spike)
I'm terrible but for some reason that made me crack up
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Cahu (Old Spike)
You're not terrible, its called black humour. Lets talk a bit about why they used the word black to describe it. I personally think its because black is related to shutting your eyes, and black humour usually depicts violent, gruesome, or death related topics, and everyone knows that when you die, black is the colour you see.
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(Long Spike)
Imagine the skill lit takes to shoot one of these lumbering and defenseless animals. People who hunt them are world class athletes.
(Old Spike)
I travelled to South Africa where elephants in the lower south parts of the Kruger park are considered overpopulated and its legal to hunt them (controlled hunting of course). Elephants when left unchecked (mainly due to the fall in number of predators) can destroy entire forests. You see, they scratch against the bark of the trees and kill them, clearing out entire forest areas and destroying entire habitats. I kid you not.
(Short Spike)
I'd prefer to think there are far too many humans. Fewer humans, more forests for them to populate. They evolved in an ecosystem that allowed for much more free movement - being forced into smaller territories, whilst maintaining older evolved behaviours is incompatible with the environment we've confined them to. If their behaviour wasn't a positive adaptive strategy, they'd have gone extinct a long time ago. Just like many other animals suffering because of human expansion; there's just no space left for the lives these creatures evolved to live in.
(Member)
They don't go extinct, they just have dramatic rises and falls in population; the falls being massive starvation, a pretty hard way to go. Man's input helps maintain a healthy population level instead of the build up and collapses of your wonderful anti-human system.
(Long Spike)
That was awesome, I wonder how they managed to keep the rest of the family away so that they could help and film the little guy!
(Old Spike)
With shotguns
(Long Spike)
I'm terrible but for some reason that made me crack up
(Old Spike)
You're not terrible, its called black humour. Lets talk a bit about why they used the word black to describe it. I personally think its because black is related to shutting your eyes, and black humour usually depicts violent, gruesome, or death related topics, and everyone knows that when you die, black is the colour you see.
(Member)
Humans are alien viruses