01-26-2007, 04:29 PM
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#13 (permalink)
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:49:55 -0800, cc <cc@nospam.edu> wrote:
>MattB wrote:
>> cc wrote:
>>> GeeDubb wrote:
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>>>> "MattB" <somedudeus@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:51umv5F1m7fmkU1@mid.individual.net...
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>>>>> Wow. Scary!
>>>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16817149/
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>>>>> Glad he got away alive.
>>>>>
>>>>> Matt
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>>>> "After the attack, game wardens closed the park about 320 miles north
>>>> of San Francisco and released hounds to track the lion. They later
>>>> shot and killed a pair of lions found near the trail where the attack
>>>> happened.
>>>>
>>>> The carcasses were flown to a state forensics lab to determine if
>>>> either animal mauled the man"
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>>>
>>> That is absolutely ridiculous. They should be prosecuted. It's
>>> obviously revenge, given the odds of actually finding the same lion.
>>> Last time I checked, mountain lions were predators in "nature". . .
>>> which a park should represent . . . sheesh.
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>> Maybe. I'd think with dogs tracking them there is more likelihood of
>> getting the right one(s) would at least be better than just shooting the
>> first ones they could get.
>> I also see your point about nature, but like it or not humans have
>> pretty much removed themselves from the food chain. I see flaws with
>> doing this in terms of how things "should" play out, but if it was me,
>> my friends or my family involved, I'm less concerned with how the food
>> chain was designed to work.
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>Even in the case where we are encroaching on their habitat with our
>residences, it is debatable whether we should engage in the "search and
>destroy" method of elimination of "rogue" wild animals. It is a much
>more compelling case, however, than doing the same thing to animals that
>behave as animals when we are supposedly visiting their habitat. The
>animal kingdom is dangerous. Kill or be killed. The only way to
>eliminate that danger is to eliminate the animals. Is that what we
>should do?
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>cc
No. Close the park permanently to humans.
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I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)
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