Zoo's aren't natural just like poaching is for douche-bags. You guys should get your stories straight.
It works both ways. People care about what they care about. A currently dominant male in a species that is going extinct and is being studies by researchers and viewed by many tourists can be viewed as a very important life. That guy wants to trivialize it and compare it to something that has nothing to do with anything.
As natural as people can make them and still have it feasible for people to see the animals. Go to the San Diego Zoo. You won't see any sad looking animals sitting behind bars like a jail cell. And it's not like they rounded up all the animals of a species and herded them into a zoo. The knowledge gained in zoos can be useful in managing wild populations of species that are endangered.
So whats un-natural about a hunt?j Just because someone says its bad its bad? Look, my only point is it is a bit stupid to criticize someone who hunts for sport when we lock animals up simply for viewing pleasure. You can't spin the fact that a zoo is un-natural.
Read what I said before. I never criticized anybody for hunting for sport. Hunting illegally by having somebody tow a piece of meat behind a vehicle to lure an animal off the Natural Park and into shooting range is not sport.
That's one thing always make me scratch head.....when people say things along the lines of hunting isn't natural or people aren't an animals natural predator.....well just what the hell is it then? People have been hunting for our entire existence. We are here on earth. We are a natural part of this planet. So how is the act of hunting by people not a natural act? Were native Americans a deers natural predator? Of course they were. It's no different now. Our presence here is natural and we are still natural predators of many animals. And again I'm not in any way supporting this specific "hunt" just that notion in general that some have that we aren't natural predators is so off the wall it's ridiculous.
I put lure on a fish hook. WTF is the difference? The more people speak out about this, the more they contradict themselves.
Obviously I don't think he is, he is using it to bring attention to something that absolutely has a lot to do with everything, unless of course you just don't care about people. Ones that are alive for just a little while.
Putting a lure, even live bait is an accepted method of catching fish. Using bait in the manner that was used to lure Cecil is against the law in Zimbabwe. The guy who did the actual baiting has been arrested and kick out of the Safari Association. Go bait a field and shoot some doves in front of a game warden and see what happens.
