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A thought on the big moose post.
In Darwin's time the biggest and baddest suvived. However, in modern day trophy hunting the biggest and the baddest are the prized possessions. The sickly deer is left to walk on by, the small and weak fish is let go. Already geneticists are seeing signs of this effecting genetic lines. The biggest and the strongest fish are being replaced with smaller and often more sickly animals.
Now I totally understand the need to hunt animals such as deer. I am not stating an opinion on whether hunting is right or wrong, I'm merely making an observation on the way hunting is done. I would provide a link to some papers, but that takes too much work and I doubt many would read it. This should be common sense anyway. Feel free to discuss. |
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
I thought the same thing when I saw the picture. Humans are good at this, there used to be giant everything until we came around apparently. [censored] badgers the size of bears n [censored]. If only humans would stick to hunting prokaryotes, the world be a much better place.
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
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[ QUOTE ] badgers the size of bears [/ QUOTE ] Really? How big were the bears? [/ QUOTE ]gigantic. Coincidently, most of these giants did not survive the ice age. |
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
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[ QUOTE ] badgers the size of bears [/ QUOTE ] Really? How big were the bears? [/ QUOTE ] lobsters used to grow to 6ft + before we started mass harvesting them |
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
Wow. I had never thought about this. I am googling for research right now. Very interesting. Thanks for posting a very interesting point to consider and discuss. I will return to this thread after having done some reading.
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
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Wow. I had never thought about this. I am googling for research right now. Very interesting. Thanks for posting a very interesting point to consider and discuss. I will return to this thread after having done some reading. [/ QUOTE ] Damn you diablo. Here is one link from Nature which is a top journal. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...4AF5FAF9FDAE00 |
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
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[ QUOTE ] Wow. I had never thought about this. I am googling for research right now. Very interesting. Thanks for posting a very interesting point to consider and discuss. I will return to this thread after having done some reading. [/ QUOTE ] Damn you diablo. Here is one link from Nature which is a top journal. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal...4AF5FAF9FDAE00 [/ QUOTE ] Interesting article, but I would predict this type of study would only hold true for animals with very few natural predators and who do not rely on their size and strength to do their own hunting - i.e. grazers or herbivores. I highly doubt this will hold true for many fish or something like a deer. |
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
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Interesting article, but I would predict this type of study would only hold true for animals with very few natural predators and who do not rely on their size and strength to do their own hunting - i.e. grazers or herbivores. I highly doubt this will hold true for many fish or something like a deer. [/ QUOTE ] No, watch strange days on planet earth w/ edward norton. |
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Re: A thought on the big moose post.
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[ QUOTE ] Interesting article, but I would predict this type of study would only hold true for animals with very few natural predators and who do not rely on their size and strength to do their own hunting - i.e. grazers or herbivores. I highly doubt this will hold true for many fish or something like a deer. [/ QUOTE ] No, watch strange days on planet earth w/ edward norton. [/ QUOTE ] I was much more impressed when you quoted the Nature article. |
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