The 2015 killing of Cecil the Lion ignited a global conversation around trophy hunting, the killing of wild animals for sport. Daily Show writer Joseph Opio and author of the book, Undercover Trophy Hunter, Eduardo Gonçalves, join Roy Wood Jr. to discuss the history and psychology of a practice widely seen as cruel and inhumane.
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That’s actually incorrect by the conservationist. Shooting an animal in the head is a bad idea. It actually suffers more because if you miss it can pass through the soft issue and the animal will run in pain. Heart and lungs is better for a quicker death. It’s also actually a larger target than the head to aim for the lungs. Still though trophy hunting is disgusting and should be illegal.
ReplyHunting is not a sport and neither is fishing. I hate people calling hunting a sport. Sport shooting targets? Sure. But hunting for sport does not exist
ReplyI visited Ghana in June 2019. I went on a one day photo safari in the Mole National Park. My Ghanaian friend had never been outside of the capitol city of Accra. We saw a small group of 6 elephants and a few species of antelope. There were several warthogs and baboons on the grounds of the hotel.
ReplyThe reason these game Hunters can concoct in their heads that this is a sport and that they actually love the animals, and this is why they’re killing them, it’s simply because they’re sick minded republicans. Move the goalposts, and no one will notice. This is their reality to this very day.
ReplyMy favorite thing about this talk is that a solution was offered. Photo Safaris sound brilliant. I guess its just a matter of convincing people to get on board.
Replycan you imagine if a rich african politician came and shot a bald eagle?
ReplyI’d rather get 1000 watermelon and a kantana (yes fruit ninja!!!). Or… let’s get Tesco hire these people for free in their butchery for the chicken massacre (Or McDonalds for beef, which could fix the inflation issue).
ReplyTo quote the great Colin Quinn: “It’s not a sport if the other team doesn’t know they’re playing”
ReplyBefore this video, I have only heard the argument of hunting money being used to preserve animals. Never been so glad to be wrong.
ReplyBrilliant information .. with the proper dose of humour. Thanks, y’all.
ReplyIf they love the animals why not just go on a safari and donate money for conservation without hurting these animals?
ReplyBecause the rich can’t do this to people they do it to something that is not even aware that they are play the “sport”. Nothing more than senseless killing
ReplyHunting a deer for food, while not a sport, is essential in an ecosystem devoid of natural predators.
ReplyMore the shame on us that such ecosystems exist.
But trophy hunting is simply psychopathic. These people a danger to humanity.
I’m a precision long range shooter. I’ve always wanted to pack up my rifle, fly to Africa, then hunt trophy hunters.
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