sorry, not sorry.

We can set up a G.F.M. to make sure you get there.

Posting my most shameful thoughts!

Made me laugh out loud with that one

I love elephants fiercely and hate anyone who would even think of harming them. I hate all hunters who kill for sport. This story is truly poetic justice

They will win the fight 10 times out of 10.

I love the sound of justice!

The Sacramento Safari Club can mount it above their all-you-can-eat buffet.

Though there is no good side to those who are clients of Collect Africa.

not just heads, but many complete animals.

that it didn't happen 50 years ago.

Uday and Qusay. I don't think Barron hunts. Yet.

CCR reference tied to an elephant trampling!

That alone is worth the ticket price

His flattened remains are being shipped home instead of being left for deserving scavengers.

Probably too toxic for wildlife to safely consume.

the trophy-hunting assholes. Elephants are magnificent, and we're going to lose them if we don't do something.

The man had killed some in the past, they live as families, and talk to each other over miles and miles.

One of my fav documentaries of elephants was about a woman conservationist who worked to protect them. She helped a young female thru something, I don't recall details on that. The women was then out of country for years. When she returned, she caught up with the herd/family group she had studied and helped.

She wondered if they would remember her.

The matriarch was leery at first until she caught scent. Then she signaled this human was safe and others got nearer, approaching cautiously and sniffing. One young adult female got a good look and whiff, then became excited, approaching much closer to be sure the woman was who she thought she was. Then the young adult stepped back into the herd, and started guiding a baby towards the woman. Yep, she not only remembered the friend who had helped her years before, she brought her young calf to meet 'the woman who saved momma'.

Yep, they remember and they communicate among their family groups.

So, maybe the herd that stomped the game hunter remembered his past transgressions and did something about dealing justice.

He had it coming.

I'm still shocked that some people feel the need to murder these wonderful and intelligent creatures.

are, and such good memories, of good events too, besides the bad events/memories.

Of the world pecking order. Studies have shown dolphins are as intelligent... or moreso than humans (especially maga!)

Many species mate for life and actually stay monogamous. Can't say that for a good many people.

Elephants not only have long memories but will bear great sacrifice to help out family members *and* friends.

Primates... other than one group I know of, primates actually are what we should aspire to in our social lives... caring, loving, family oriented, helpful to both family and group members, but also to p"strangers".

That one group I mentioned... was actually two groups who had schismed and ended violently making war on each othet. Fascinating from an ecological and psychological viewpoint... especially when doing a contrast and compare with humans.

Personally I think the less contact with humans, the better off for the animals. But despite how so many have mistreated them, many will still come to our aid when we need help. Since they don't expect gain from the interaction, I view it as the altruism that humans should have already evolved to... sigh

So many times, I'd much rather work and associate with animals over people. IMO, human DEI is copied from the best of the animal species. JMO, YMMV.

Sounds like it went wonderfully right to me. And it sounds like a good start. Keep up the good work, elephants!

One less asshole millionaire in the world...

Guess it's true.

is going out and shooting animals for "sport." That's not sport.

I won't say what I think it really is.

There's not enough money in the world for me to ever marry a man like that. The sight of his 'trophies" would make me sick.

is disgusting. The man got what he deserved.

What did you kill?

I have for the dead man.

If this bozo understood that, he would still be alive.

quite well

Elephant tracks are hard to follow...

No harm, no foul.

the law should be in his favor.

in the brush that they were not visible.

pic in the article.

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Many years ago I had a co worker who came from Cambodia. Every now and then he would impart some wisdom my way.

Things like "If you in jungle, don't make tiger mad" Damn good advice I must say.

One of his others was "If you in jungle and see elephants making love, make sure they don't see you. If they see you are watching them do that, they will chase you down, stomp you and kill you"

🙄

I especially like the part where your co-worker doesn't know about verbs in the first clause of each aphorism and then has it all figured out in proper English for the rest.

I suspect a youtube video of Ernie being trampled would get a billion likes.

He is a well regarded conservationist, and he only hunts legally and to cull. He donates a great deal of money to Veterans Associations and to other worthy charities. I hope this link will appear.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/california-big-game-hunter-ernie-dosio-dead-elephants-africa-hunt#

as a conservationist. I added the link in case you’re interested, but you really don’t seem to be so never mind.

As an animal rights supporter I am weirdly less irked by big game hunters than some as awful as they are as I hate Tyson Chicken so much more re: scale.
So I do appreciate your point in a roundabout way tavernier.

The sheer scale of animal abuse out there is breathtaking and I do rank and prioritize things automatically, something which I now realize is what always confused me about society’s collective zeitgeist.

I see these everywhere now:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-explains-why-bell-curves-are-everywhere-20260316/

That said, I doubt any of us would like this guy if we knew more about him.

Good guys don't murder anyone.

And nothing in it changed my mind.
What he was hunting was a rare antelope.
That screams endangered to me.
As far as his charity work, that was hosting dinners at his trophy room for his rich friends. Nowhere in the article did they say where the money raised went. All it stated was it went to those "in need".
The best part of the article was that it noted another millionaire big game hunter met the same fate and was gored by a buffalo last year.
Hopefully they both spend eternity being the hunted.

All about the heads on his wall and having hunted elephants before.

If he was going “conservation culling” why did he pay £30k to do it?

numerous fact checks, conspiracies,lack of transparency with regard to ownership and funding.

often described as a British version of Fox News."

Yeah, fuck him.

He could have done his good works without acting on the urge to murder his fellow creatures.

AWAYS wins in the end.

. . . Don Jr was not with him

Seekin' my fame and fortune
Lookin' for innocent animals to kill
Things got bad and things got worse
I guess you will know the tune
Oh Lord, now my dead body is stuck in Lodi again

Sounds like a hunt gone right for a change

Gets to stick him on their wall as a trophy?

This bit of karma is still my personal favorite.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44728507

dont get eles miffed .

There’s a picture of him with a dead bison.

Nobody will miss him.

(fill in the blank)_______________________

Big game hunter trampled to death by heard of elephants. Big win for Mother Nature and her great big beautiful animals.

In general, I don't approve of hunting. I grew up in a hunting culture, so I have taken a lot of Crap about this over the years.

It is an expensive "sport" and I don't care for the taste of game, and yes, I know what wild duck, rabbit, venison, etc, taste like. Not impressed. But hunting for "sport" is a terrible thing. It just cannot be justified

I have heard this "culling the herd" bullshit all my life. If we had not killed off all the predators it would not be necessary, and yes, there are times it is necessary, but in general, it is just an excuse to kill something, that is not bothering you at all. I love the out doors, and have spent a significant amount of time camping, hiking, and canoeing.

I was taught to be quite competent with firearms, but never felt the urge to kill anything out there.

Elephants are majestic creatures and should be left alone.

struck me. He paid $55,000 for the "privilege" of stalking a rare antelope, while hevwas carrying a high-powered rifle. yeah, just "observing". At least one story claims that the elephants were so well hidden that he and his ph (professsional hunter) never saw them. Multiple pictures of him with his "trophies". A picture of a "trophy room" in his house filled with both trophy heads and complete bodies. But, according to his huntwasher, each and every one of them was a cull, or a carcass he just happened upon.

I am glad they did not dignify him with "winemaker", which he was not, but the far more accurate "vineyard tycoon". Big Ag.

Link to tweet

Go Elephants!

So.................what went wrong?

When I was growing up in Mich. my dad hunted and so did my brothers. We used the deer meat as food to feed the family over the winter. These trophy hunters are psychopaths.

I am glad that he didn't feel the same fate I'm sure many of his "trophies" did.

Those are all the kind words I have for him. That said, I can think of almost no better "fuck you" to him than this.

To be clear, fuck that guy.

Game hunters are horrible. Totally unnecessary. Bored, rich assholes who have nothing better to do than kill things.

If you hunt, it should be for food. Period.

Another useless idiot that won’t kill for fun.

Peace ☮️

Big game Hunter gets killed by big game elephants!

Or maybe they remember that guy from some other BS he pulled out there. Either way he knew he was poking at danger out there.

It says he was hunting a Yellow-Backed Duiker. In my early life I worked at a zoo and with several kinds of duikers. I can't believe there is ANY way that this is not considered an endangered animal. It blows my mind to think that it's allowed to kill one (or any of the duikers) for a trophy. I think all of the species are threatened due to habitat loss and the bushmeat trade.

I'm apparently incapable of getting a photo link of one to work here, but the Yellow Backs are vaguely deer shaped with a short neck, less than 3 feet tall at the back. They don't have big impressive antlers or horns. While I appreciated them, I don't see them as being a majestic looking mount on a wall.

Re the elephants intelligence and memory--for anyone interested in such things, check out the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and what they do for/with elephants. Among other things they save orphaned elephants and frequently post short videos of their 'graduates' that have gone back to the wild. Then, when they have their own babies will come back to the compound where they were raised. As if to showoff their babies to their former caregivers. Lots of amazing and heartwarming stories.
https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/social-feed

Glad that the elephants scored one over the hunter.

Link to tweet

The creepy trophy room and scene near the end of Roadhouse:

Red West: I didn't see nothing — not a thing! You see anything, Tinker?
Tinker: A polar bear fell on me.

Time for another donation to the World Wildlife Fund.

What a wasted opportunity, Usay and Kusay should have been there for the same justice.

Good riddance.