An American millionaire big-game hunter has died after being crushed by a group of elephants during a hunting expedition in Gabon.
Thank you elephants!
He died the same way he lived: like an asshole.
never thought I’d see the day
Well I’ll be damned…
And nothing of value was lost.
Good, happy for the elephants
you win the internet today
If we’re gonna pretend hunting is sport, you’ve gotta be prepared for the other team to show up and play.
He was hunting antelopes, not elephants at least. But I’m still glad the elephants showed up.
He had hunted elephants previously and had elephant trophies, so I have no sympathy for him.
the elephant posse probably remembered him.
so they remembered him
the elephants hunted the hunter.
Hell yeah!
The was hunting yellow backed duiker which, A, are evidently insanely easy to hunt. So easy that you can evidently shine a light at it at night, walk right up to it, and club it to death.
They’re a vital food source for a bit part of central Africa.
And 2, they’re so heavily hunted that they’re at serious risk of endangerment.
I said something in another post about there being a chance this was a genuine conversation effort, but after doing some reading; no. This guy is just an asshole. He got justifiably trampled by elephants doing something for fun that the people of central Africa do every day to feed themselves.
They’re a vital food source for a bit part of central Africa.
And 2, they’re so heavily hunted that they’re at serious risk of endangerment.Food source or at risk of endangerment? Pick an argument.
…this was a genuine conversation effort…
Ah, I see. Don’t bother.
Still learning that more than one thing can be true at a time?
They’re also just being an asshole because OP accidentally wrote “conVERsation” instead of “conSERvation”, and that obviously invalidates the whole argument, duh.
You sound like a cool dude with many real world friends. Certainly not like some chronically wrong chode who likes to pick at strangers on the internet to make himself feel bigger.
Why are the antelopes less important than the elephants?
One has a fragile population and is well respected the other doesn’t. It’s for the same reason Bison hunting is looked down apon but annihilating a boar with a landmine wouldn’t be.
Edit: Just noticed that the species he was hunting was endangered, fuck him. My point still stands for boars though
Why does being endangered matter? They both have a preference to live, and would choose to not die. They both feel pain and fear. They don’t know they’re endangered. All they know is they want to live.
Humans killing animals is mostly unnecessary.
I didn’t say that. Just pointed out how the title could be misleading.
If we’re going to pretend it’s a sport, let both sides be humans.
I mean, the guise we use for hunting is that it’s for population control to properly conserve the environment. I suppose if you wanted to say there were some populations that needed controlling on environmental grounds, like billionaires or something, I might be amenable.
Whoopsies! There goes another one that we’ve hunted to extinction. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s more like that hunting permit fees fund actual conservation efforts, not that there’s really much of a legitimate conservation effect from the hunting itself. (Except maybe when it’s an invasive species.)
I wonder what percentage goes to the actual conservation efforts, after all the cuts and bribes by the middlemen
It depends heavily where it is. Some of the programs are very very good, others are corrupt af.
The best ones give the people living in proximity to the animals recourse when said animals destroy crops or property. This plus giving back a portion of the fees to help community enrichment projects incentivizes protection of the animals by the locals, which deters poaching and stuff.
Sure, I guess you could apply license fees for hunting permits on billionaires to conservation efforts if you insist.
I vote to use their hoard similar to the Susan G Komen foundation. Awareness of the issue, funding the members(mass populous) with a bit going to research
When prey animals are “saved” from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment. Deer in North America is an example that needs to be controlled.
Is don’t know to what extent though.
deer reproduce very fast, elephants take 22months to gestate a baby, big cats like wise. the forest elephant which is a different species is pretty at risk.
When prey animals are “saved” from their natural predators, they tend to over reproduce and wreak havoc on their environment.
Exactly…
When corrupt capitalists are “saved” from taxation, they tend to hoard wealth and wreck havoc on the economy. Drastically lowering not only everyone else’s quality of life, but in many cases their physical health and well-being along with everyone they know and interact with
It’s a classic trolly problem.
Track one: about 8,300,000,000 people
Track 2: 3,500 people that aimed the trolleybat track 1.
Would you turn the switch back so it saves 8.3 billion people, at the expense of of the less than 4 thousand people that put us in front of the trolley?
elephants, cape buffalos, lions and most of the cat species in africa, and forest elephants are pretty much endangered right
Billionaire hunting billionaires? The Victor gets the spoils? I’d watch that on Netflix. For free. While browsing.
Wish granted: millionaires now hunt us for sport.
I mean they already do that, at least if it were official it would give a legal way to get rid of them
I thought we were calling these “layoffs” and their less fun variant “attrition”?
He was prepared (brought a gun) but simply lost.
Everyone’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Pshh millionaire?
You have to be a thousand times richer than that these days to have any clout.
/s
Based elephants. Absolutely majestic animals.
Sweet
Just when you think the world is all injustice and pain, you get a feel good story like this one.
Should taxidermy him and give him to the Elephants. Based on the amount of “trophies” he had, it’s what he would have wanted. To the victor go the spoils.
Lol
When the hunter gets captured by the game.
