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Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
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RE: Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
(October 25, 2013 at 11:01 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: I think the article stated that all black rhino hunts are conducted with guides and under the watch of wildlife officials.

All legal black rhino hunts; what about poaching? Black rhinos, as well as white rhinos, are regularly poached in order to supply the Asian "traditional medicine" market. Organized poaching gangs go out and kill hundreds of rhinos a year, thwarting conservationist efforts to rebuild the population, or at the very least slowing it down considerably, and poaching gangs don't discriminate between old or young rhinos - if they have a horn that can be sold on the Asian medicinal markets, that rhino is going down.

I get the logic behind culling the older population in order to promote breeding among the younger members of the species, but I'm not sure that granting hunting rights that will reduce the population further is the right choice to make, given the poaching situation. That being said, I don't know what the right solution is; this may be the best worst option. Undecided
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RE: Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
Why not, just tranquilize the older, territorial rhinos and move them somewhere else away from the fertile females? Say, to a heard of older, infertile females.
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RE: Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
Nature has come up with a system whereby the males compete for the right to mate with the females. The winner gets laid...the loser goes home.

This seems seems somewhat more logical than the human system where people go to online dating sites and lie about themselves.

I would be averse to fucking with what nature has come up with. We don't have such a hot track record at that.
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RE: Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
(October 27, 2013 at 11:36 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Why not, just tranquilize the older, territorial rhinos and move them somewhere else away from the fertile females? Say, to a heard of older, infertile females.

Rhinos aren't a species that go through menopause. To my knowledge, female rhinos are fertile until their death so there would be no moving the older males to a herd of infertile females - which is futile anyway: Black Rhinos are solitary.
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RE: Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
(October 27, 2013 at 12:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Nature has come up with a system whereby the males compete for the right to mate with the females. The winner gets laid...the loser goes home.

It also happens in bars and nightclubs.
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RE: Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
You've seen guys butting heads in bars?
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RE: Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
(October 27, 2013 at 12:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Nature has come up with a system whereby the males compete for the right to mate with the females. The winner gets laid...the loser goes home.

This seems seems somewhat more logical than the human system where people go to online dating sites and lie about themselves.

I would be averse to fucking with what nature has come up with. We don't have such a hot track record at that.

Clap I agree, make the men fight, I say!!!!
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RE: Hunting club raises money to save black rhino... by hunting a black rhino
(October 27, 2013 at 9:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You've seen guys butting heads in bars?

Pretty much.
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