01-28-2007, 10:18 AM
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#18 (permalink)
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On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:18:43 GMT, "JP" <vze2wx8p@verizon.net> wrote:
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>"Mike Vandeman" <mjvande@pacbell.net> wrote in message
>news:enalr29bkt55q37qnvgg7dsug7eh8le9qt@4ax.com.. .
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:49:55 -0800, cc <cc@nospam.edu> wrote:
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>>>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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "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.
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>>>>>> 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
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>> 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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>> Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are
>> fond of!
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>> http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
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Of course. Just A LOT LESS than any mountain biker. A hiker can and
will step over an animal on the trail. A mountain biker most likely
will never even know it was there, and will certainly crush it. There
are examples in zoological museums.
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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.)
Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of!
http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
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