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Ecotourism vs hunting
Topic Started: Nov 28 2013, 10:23 AM (3,328 Views)
Furka
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Elephas Maximus
Dec 8 2013, 03:47 PM
Furka
Dec 8 2013, 03:36 PM
and hunting just for mounting an animal makes no sense, especially if it's an endangered species.
if you want to mount an elephant, go and buy a dead one from a zoo.
But we do mount edible species, fish included :)
and that's how you do waste an animal IMO.
again, animals for mounts should come from captive specimens. if zoos don't provide them that's another problem, you should try to do something about that rather than replacing them with wild animals which are more useful when alive.
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Elephas Maximus
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I get what's possible from local zoo, up to the hippo (not whole, too heavy).

Btw purchasing a tag for game species to increase museum collection is not wrong at all.
And many hunters are known for donating their trophy rooms for the public display.
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Hamikins
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You will respect my authoratah.

Animals are better alive then dead. And mounting will never be a needed thing we must have. I don't agree with it.
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

I'm uncomfortable with any taxidermy. I don't support hunting just to mount something, ever, any species, in any case. I support the recycling of zoo animals into mounts, however, or mounting something you eat.
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CyborgIguana
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I'm ok with taxidermy for the purpose of museum display, just not for the purpose of trophies.
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Tyrannocanthosaurus
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Banned for being rude.

Exactly, it doesn't prove anything to have a stuffed carnivore that was killed for fun.
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Australman
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it was not necessary to display dead animals and being able to see animals alive is better than looking at a lifeless skeleton
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CyborgIguana
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Still, if we hadn't preserved the specimens of species that went extinct, we'd have no evidence left of the Dodo, Thylacine, or Passenger Pigeon today.
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Furka
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a lifeless skeleton can provide clues that you would never be able to get from a real animal.
you can learn a lot from a dead animal, from how is it able to do some stuff to various pathologies that affects it.
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Elephas Maximus
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And every animal, even a common one, is unique more or less, if those are not lab mice siblings :)
For example, I done several bobcat skulls left over by hunters that wanted just fur & claws.
Each of them had different measurements and dentition, and one even had 6 canine teeth!!!
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