As humans hunt, their prey gets smaller

[AllieBaba]

If we could back to the actual thread title:

The last paragraph is a bit telling and for me brings into question how credible the article is and what they authors really know about hunting.

First hunters are not "instructed" to take the largest animal. No one 'instructs' on which animal to take. No one 'instructs' any other hunter I know what to take either.

The reality is there is only so much wall space. My dad shot and had mounted the largest white tail he's seen to this day some 15 years ago. The largest elk he has shot and had mounted was more than 20 years ago. The largest mule deer I've shot I had mounted last year. The largest white tail my brother has seen was shot and mounted last year. The largest walleye I've ever caught was mounted 6 years ago. My dad's 5 years ago.

The point, you may be asking, is that after you get 'the big one' size after that for most hunters becomes irrelevant. I can say with a high degree certainty that my dad will never shoot a bigger elk, and my brother I can say with 99.9% certainty is never going to shoot a bigger white tail rack wise, and he has 40-50 years of hunting left.

The other thing I question about the study is if the human harvest is really enough of a factor that it correlates to what was observed (I don't deny their obervations). Given the deer hunting year in MN I find it hard to believe that humans are haveiung a huge impact on the animal population much less causing any evolutionary changes. We had a hard enough time competeing with the Timberwolves for deer this year and as far as large animals go, white tail deer are probably the number one hunted animal in the country. Interesting that they chose not to study those.

Do you have some sort of lodge to place all these mounted marvels of taxidermy?

Or do your poor wives have to dust them as they go about their daily chores?

Really, what room is a mounted fish appropriate in?

 

[AllieBaba]

And does fish mounting count as trans-species homosexual behavior? Perhaps this is where the pro-homosexual crowd get their wild fairy tales about homosexual behavior being "common" among "all" animals....

I'm getting closer and closer to the truth....

 

[dilloduck]

Do you have some sort of lodge to place all these mounted marvels of taxidermy?

Or do your poor wives have to dust them as they go about their daily chores?

Really, what room is a mounted fish appropriate in?

Same room that you keep your scales in.

 

[Epsilon Delta]

This isn't a big a secret. Historically speaking, we've already wiped out almost all of the giant mammals that were widespread only 10,000 years ago. Drove whales, gorillas, and others to near-extinction, both by eating them and destroying the habitat. The thing now is that we're industrially extracting other types of species, and fish are particularly vulnerable. I'd imagine it's this sort of extraction that is much more damaging than sport hunting.

 

[AllieBaba]

One species prospers and others die out. That's nature's way. And I do believe we're all about being "natural", right?

 

[Old Rocks]

One species prospers and others die out. That's nature's way. And I do believe we're all about being "natural", right?

I see. Trawlers and drift nets are natural?

 

[dilloduck]

I see. Trawlers and drift nets are natural?

Well everyone knows that anything made by man can't possibly be "natural".


So it's bad

 

[AllieBaba]

I see. Trawlers and drift nets are natural?

We're supposed to hunt with spears? Lol. Evolution dictates we advance, not regress. Or we'd be the ones dying out.

If we're all about nature, we follow nature's path and continue to evolve. That includes our brains and our ability to adapt, genius.

 

[dilloduck]

We're supposed to hunt with spears? Lol. Evolution dictates we advance, not regress. Or we'd be the ones dying out.

If we're all about nature, we follow nature's path and continue to evolve. That includes our brains and our ability to adapt, genius.

Spears aren't natural ( unless you are asperagus )

 

[Bern80]

Do you have some sort of lodge to place all these mounted marvels of taxidermy?

Or do your poor wives have to dust them as they go about their daily chores?

Really, what room is a mounted fish appropriate in?

Yeah it's called my family's house. It may be foreign to you, but in parts of the country where hunting is a tradition it is quite normal to see walls with deer here or fish there. and mock taxidermy all you like but it is an art. Is there a point here since you don't seem to want to respond to the crux of the argument?

 

[AllieBaba]

No, moron. I was having a little fun. Don't preach to me about taxidermy as an art. I have been surrounded by bear heads, various animal hides, and acres of antlers all my life. I've made things out of them.

However, I'm not big on having them hanging in my house. Maybe when I purchase that big hunting lodge I've always dreamed about....

 

[KittenKoder]

Two Words: Rat Burgers.

 

[Bern80]

No, moron. I was having a little fun. Don't preach to me about taxidermy as an art. I have been surrounded by bear heads, various animal hides, and acres of antlers all my life. I've made things out of them.

However, I'm not big on having them hanging in my house. Maybe when I purchase that big hunting lodge I've always dreamed about....

sorry to misunderstand. Let's just say my mother..... tolerates them.