Raw Nature

[Zen Badger]

What happens when three wild Cheetahs catch an Impala.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...stead.html

Astonishing, truly astonishing.

It appears animals have more integrity than most people.

[KichigaiNeko]

So it would seem. They weren't hungry and were young. Just wait until they ARE hungry and that Impala is on the menu... Chomp!

[Welsh cake]

In all probability, they were honing their hunting skills.

Animals in the wild train and practice like that all the time, sometimes they'll catch something not worth their time and let it go. No different from the fisherman who throws back the little guppies he occasionally catches.

[Nine]

Let's hope it didn't tell all its friends how nice those big, scarylooking cheetahs really are when you get to know them.

lol

[Zen Badger]

Undoubtedly when they are hungry they'll kill it without a moments regret.

But the thing is that this time, because they weren't hungry they didn't.

Unlike humans, who kill for the mere sport of it.

[Nine]

Unlike humans, who kill for the mere sport of it.

I was working at a house last week and they have trophy heads everywhere.. Its disgusting..

I'm sure they were good christians tho..

[KichigaiNeko]

Unlike humans, who kill for the mere sport of it.

I was working at a house last week and they have trophy heads everywhere.. Its disgusting..

I'm sure they were good christians tho..

What you doing??

But yeah..good little xtians that have such a value for life! Hypocrites! Still they are only bipedal life forms descended from apes so what can one expect?

[Nine]

What you doing??

Cleaning their windows

[Faith No More]

Let's hope this little impala doesn't misinterpret this interaction as all cheetahs are going to be this nice. Still pretty damn cute though.

[The Grand Nudger]

Animals are sport-killers as well (ignoring the fact that we are animals in the first place). I've never understood the distaste people have for other people hunting. It isn't exactly a talent we developed for sport, and to you it may seem pointless but the time we've been able to exist without hunting is a small drop of our overall experience here. Let's take a moment to wonder what a lion would do with all of it's free time if it were in our shoes. I'm willing to wager that any predator would continue to be a predator even when the immediate need for this aspect of itself had been reduced.

If you like wildlife, and you live in the US, but have something against hunting and hunters, you need to brush up on the Pittmann-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson Acts. Hunters and fishermen are the largest and most reliable financial contributors to wildlife conservation in the U.S. (and have been since 1937). You see, money spent on hunting goes to the animals involved, money spent on documentaries and tours (because they're just so goddamned cute) does not.

Hunters want nice big forests to house nice big healthy populations of trophy animals. Hunters want effective game management so that they can enjoy their sport, and effective game management includes predation. Hunters spend an absurd amount of money on optics so they can watch these animals (this money, that other people who do not hunt also spend, to animal watch, is not covered under these acts strangely). They're just as fond of deer as the guy who wants to keep deer from being hunted. Hard-line conservationists would be fast friends with hunters if they were interested in more than a kneejerk "save the cuddlies" platform.