First the frogs turned gay and now this
2026-04-24 11:36 UTC
Replies (40)
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@Lanske@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 09:19
Good riddance!
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@nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-25 06:25
The guillotine blade is sometimes as blunt as an elephants foot.
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@muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-25 05:56
The frogs are okay with it.
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@philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2026-04-25 06:18
I find this discussion really interesting. The other night i watched Loius Theroux's African Hunting Party documentary where he goes to Africa and interviews Americans who pay big money to kill wild animals. Some of them endangered i believe. The money made from it goes into conservation to ensure these species are kept alive to keep the whole thing going. I remember years ago there was a guy who killed a rhino on one of these hunts. People went mental about it. Turns out that rhino was killing baby rhinos and was itself depopulating the already small population of rhino. He paid $350,000 to do it too. Radiolab did a great episode on it [here](https://radiolab.org/podcast/rhino-hunter) I have been a vegetarian for the last 15 or so years. I doubt i will ever eat meat again and i most certainly will not eat factory farmed meat every again. In the film, the hunters ask the question "is this worst than buying meat from the supermarket?". Honestly, i dont think it is, the virtually live in freedom untill they are killed. The conditions of factory farmed animals is much much worse. Im not likely to pick up a gun and start hunting myself anytime soon (unless its a pest) but i thought its an interesting conversation to have.
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@BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 2026-04-25 05:36
Karma comes for us all... ～(つˆ0ˆ)つ｡☆
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@somtwo@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 05:46
Billionaire, yeah, millionaire, nah
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@CelestialImpact@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-25 03:59
Good
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-04-25 04:50
just like that dentist that "hunted that famous lion" and he went into hiding.
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@altphoto@lemmy.today 2026-04-25 04:37
Dactari!
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@Etterra@discuss.online 2026-04-25 03:51
Got RL jumped by a wandering boss.
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@socsa@piefed.social 2026-04-24 21:22
Come one guys, that dude was a father and a brother and a son and a husband . It's a shame his family wasn't there too.
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@GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 00:36
Stomp the rich!
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@Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2026-04-24 20:57
In Elephant culture they call this a sick move.
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@charonn0@startrek.website 2026-04-24 19:56
Fair game.
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@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2026-04-24 19:28
Guys, does one of you have a Death Notebook? Because these deaths are really suspicious. You have submarine accident, bee going into someone's throat, and... An elephant stampede. Which genius smart ass is doing this? I owe them all the drinks!
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@Rooskie91@discuss.online 2026-04-24 12:17
Lol, animals are starting the revolution because Americans won't.
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@WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 17:49
 Get to steppin!
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@blarghly@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 14:59
> Although many disagree with big game hunting all Ernie’s hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation in culling animal numbers Nothing here really indicates that the guy was a bad person, other than some vague categorizations like "he was rich" or "he was a hunter". I can't say anything about his deeds or misdeeds as a rich guy. But I feel like there should be some context added about big game hunters - namely, that they are important to conservation efforts. Sport hunters realized probably 100 years ago that unchecked hunting of their quarry would soon lead to the extinction of such species, and thus, the extinction of their sport. Hence, they were a big part of the early conservation efforts of the early 20th century, and typically continue to be big (and organized) advocates of conservation efforts today - supporting the protection of ecosystems and public lands. Of course, this isn't to say hunters, as individuals or as a group, are without their flaws. You would likely find more than a few climate skeptics in their ranks. But it seems to me that someone who goes out to interact with nature regularly would be a far more sympathetic ear to being swayed than their cousin Jim Bob who just sits on the couch all day watching Fox News. In particular, there seems to be an idea that hunters are some sort of bloodthirsty killers. But most hunters will explain that they do a lot to limit animal suffering by lining up precise shots and using bullets or arrows designed to kill as quickly as possible. While most hunting done in developed nations these days is done for sport, the hunters do still eat the meat, and they are quick to point out that this is probably the most ethical way to get meat - from an animal who was able to live a good life in a natural habitat, and which then died instantly. Far better than the cow which lived its whole life in a tiny feed lot up to its knees in shit before it was turned into a hamburger. And if you ask them *why* they hunt, they will talk about spending time in nature, spending time with friends, and feeling like they are taking part in the circle of life in a way humans have been since we roamed the African savannah. And on a practical level - almost every natural area in the world *needs* hunters in order to control animal populations. In most areas, apex predators have been brought to near extinction by a number of factors - mostly the destruction of large contiguous areas of habitat for the purposes of farming. The result is an explosion in the population of prey species, which will then have negative impacts on the environment as a whole by overpopulating and overfeeding. Thus there is a need to regularly cull herds. We could pay land managers to do this themselves, of course. But why do that when there is a population of sport hunters willing to pay to do the job for you? Which brings us to big game hunting in Africa. Africa, you may have heard, is poor. While conditions are improving, Africa remains one of the biggest hotbeds of world poverty, and it is currently undergoing a massive population boom. And adjacent to these populations of desperately poor people, you have the last strongholds of some of the most incredible species on Earth. I have a friend who regularly travels to Africa to help with a small NGO he is affiliated with. As he tells it, the attitude of the average local is "I think they should kill all the lions. They eat people." They think the land would be better used for more farms or more housing, and see poachers as just doing some honest work. African governments are similarly not very interested in protecting these natural habitats - the more democratic ones are typically mostly focused on getting people food, water, shelter, and healthcare on an extremely meager budget. And the more autocratic ones are concerned with pleasing the multinational corporations exploiting their land and quelling populist uprisings. Both the people and the governments must be given a reason to care about preserving their natural environments. An *Economic* reason. The cold, hard truth is that if you want to save the elephants, you must show the people who control the land that having elephants will make them more money than not having elephants. Enter: big game hunters. The preserves, of course, get some funding from NGOs and normal ecotourism safaris. But more money is more better, and big game hunters come with money. African preserves face the same challenges as wildland areas in the rest of the world, as apex predator populations dwindle, prey populations increase to untenable levels. They must be culled somehow, so why not let someone pay you for the opportunity? Meanwhile, the apex predators and megafauna themselves will all die eventually. And what is the fate of an aging lion with an arthritic limp? To slowly starve to death, until he is too weak to fend off the hyenas that will tear the flesh from his bones while he is still alive? Auctioning off a hunting license for a dying lion will both shorten the animal's suffering and result in a big payday for the preserve so they can pay to protect all the other lions from poachers. The great irony being that whenever we see a news story about big game hunting, the comments inevitably cast the hunter as the villian - when instead, they are an active participant in preserving endangered species and limiting animal suffering. Is this exactly the world we would all like to see? No, not really. But solving problems of shrinking habitats and worldwide poverty will take a while, and protecting endangered species with big game hunters' deep pockets is a pretty good solution *right now*.
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@FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2026-04-24 16:56
The elephants know. Them, and the orcas fucking up yachts off the Gibraltar strait lol
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@Sunflier@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 17:06
Nature did humans back in the US a favor
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@thesohoriots@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 11:52
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@BreadOven@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 17:15
But he was hunting antelope, that's not as bad though? I'm against that type of hunting regardless, but he wasn't hunting elephants. Is the antelope population large?
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@flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-24 12:08
Also, bulls started winning 
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@Ariselas@piefed.ca 2026-04-24 12:00
First the whales, now elephants, keep up the good work guys
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@realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2026-04-24 11:58
I would like to take every big game hunter, take away their weapon and put them in an arena with the last thing they shot. Nobody of these ballless losers would survive.
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@village604@adultswim.fan 2026-04-24 14:22
Just a reminder that these hunts are for the purpose of culling for conservation. This wasn't some dude rolling with poachers.
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@razen@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 20:28
Onxe more
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@CircaV@lemmy.ca 2026-04-24 18:30
Oh noes. So sad. JK.
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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 19:10
I like how a bunch of them died underwater and they were still too arrogant to realize nature is scary.
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@eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-24 17:37
I'm assuming it's slop because I'd like it to be true.
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@Fedizen@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 13:31
The frogs were always gay and if they ever become straight that is a cry for help.
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@Soulphite@reddthat.com 2026-04-24 13:22
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@slothrop@lemmy.ca 2026-04-24 12:28
[news article](https://metro.co.uk/2026/04/24/millionaire-big-game-hunter-trampled-death-herd-five-elephants-28102460/)
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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2026-04-24 13:58
I was not able to find a source I find reliable, but there are many sites that suggest elephants recognize individual humans and recognize guns as threats, and can even recognize a gun pointed at them is a threat. So if someone they don’t know has a gun, and we’ll never know if he aimed one at an elephant for funsies, they may have identified him as a threat and defended themselves by killing him.
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@JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2026-04-24 12:14
Nature is healing
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@Rothe@piefed.social 2026-04-24 14:13
Is it another one, or is it the same which have been reposted about for years now? It would be great if it is a movement in the works, all those shitstains really needs to die horrible deaths.
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@red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-24 12:51
Karma, bitch.
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@notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 2026-04-24 15:43
Is there video
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-04-24 19:09
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@Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-25 11:42
This is not a shitpost.