Rugby Gooner wrote:The absolute
American dentist who killed that Lion on a "Hunt" in Zimbabwe. By "hunt" he means shooting an animal with a crossbow,then following it for 40 hours before shooting it in the head!
Ironic that HUNT rhymes with the very word that describes him, and all the others who participate in this cowardly bollocks!
Agreed, these people disturb me. They revel in taking away life and I just find it sick.
I did read an interesting article though. They basically said that although it's difficult for most people to understand why people would want to kill a lion, elephant, tiger, etc. the very fact that they pay crazy high prices to do so (the dentist paid £35k apparently) actually protects lions from being exterminated as pests by local people who would, if not for the high price for hunters, have little reason to keep these animals alive.
No idea if that's true or not, but thought it was interesting.
Obviously it appears that Cecil the lion was lured away from a national park, so the above doesn't really apply to him.