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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCecil’s Brother Is Now Watching Over All Of The Pride’s Cubs
Following Cecils death, many feared for the welfare of his cubs: In the wild, male lions often kill their fallen rivals cubs in an effort to stake a claim and repopulate the pride with their own offspring.
Fortunately, Cecils babies were spared and are being cared for by the prides new alpha male.
The good news comes twofold today as Zimbabwean authorities announced early this morning their plans to extradite Dr. Walter Palmer, the hunter responsible for Cecils death.
If convicted, he will likely face jail time.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)kiva
(4,373 posts)I'm glad to see that the law of the jungle is merciful in this case.
d_r
(6,907 posts)was that Jerecho wouldn't be able to defend the pride single handedly. Hopefully this means that they are more confident that he can.
840high
(17,196 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)I'll hold my tongue as to what I want to happen to Dr. Lion Killer.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)applicable to cases like this (he is answering the questions in this exchange):
Q: Take somebody I really hate, like Meese. Meese is not an elected official. Can I say that somebody should slice Meese open and wrap his intestines around a phone booth?
A. No, you probably can't. He should be flogged -- just not to death.
Q. What if we said Messe should be fucked by an elk?
A. That's apparently harmless as hell. I believe that Ed Meese -- being a person without any honor, a fat bastard, really a congenital cheap pig in the style of and on the level of Richard Nixon -- should be locked in a large concrete basement with an elk. And the elk should be ram-fed full of acid before he's put in there.
Q. An angry, horny, acid-crazed elk.
A. Meese is naked, and the elk is huge, maybe 800 plus.
Q. Elk can be ugly customers.
A. And once they're full of acid, and they're really horny -- oh yeah, all night long!
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Leave it to the good Doctor to have a creative solution tot he problem.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)In all seriousness, elks are beautiful creatures, but you do not want to piss one off.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)Think I need to remedy that. Your post lead me to Wiki...
Thompson wrote passionately on behalf of African American rights and the African American Civil Rights Movement.[67] He strongly criticized the dominance in American society of, what he called, "white power structures".[68] He was a proponent of the right to bear arms and privacy rights.[69] A member of the National Rifle Association,[70] Thompson was also co-creator of "The Fourth Amendment Foundation", an organization to assist victims in defending themselves against unwarranted search and seizure.[71]
Yeah, I definitely need to remedy that.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)(Which can be found in all its glory in "The Great Shark Hunt" collection) was what wised me up to the realities of politics while entertaining me immensely and teaching me some very vivid and imaginative uses of descriptive language.
You might also want to track down "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Seeing the book onscreen by way of Johnny Depp (who channels HST so completely that Thompson himself was very impressed), Benicio del Toro as Doctor Gonzo, his lawyer and, um, co-adventurer, and director Terry Gilliam, is wonderfully mind-twisting.
Sample quote:
Thompson to a hitchhiker he and Gonzo pick up in the desert: "You want a beer? No? Well how about some ether?"
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)I was fresh outta college. I wasn't too political then, but working in Reagan's DC changed that pretty quickly.
F&LILV is in my Netflix queue, and I just moved it up to near the top. Gotta finish my binge-watching of "Breaking Bad" (way too late to that party...).
Catkin
(9 posts)Liberal_Dog
(11,075 posts)I remember watching a documentary about a pride with no male lion. Two brothers eventually manage to take over the pride. The brothers allowed the pride's cubs to live. So, that does happen on occasion and I am glad that it also has happened here.
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)Yes that's true, but the younger the cubs the more likely they are to be killed. Cubs who are a little older have a better chance to survive. Not sure the biological reasoning behind that.
okasha
(11,573 posts)Lionesses defend the pride, too, so he has help.
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)If the males want to kill the cubs they will kill them. Sad as that is.
lionesses help defend the pride. "The girls" are the first line of defense from an intruder. Just imagine how you'd feel with twelve lionesses on your ass.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)1monster
(11,012 posts)We need an emoticon that expresses despair with the human race...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141164416
Source: CNN
Cecil the lion's brother, Jericho, is also illegally killed in Zimbabwe, official says
By Michael Martinez and Deborah Bloom, CNN
Updated 2:35 PM ET, Sat August 1, 2015
(CNN)The brother of slain Cecil the lion, named Jericho, was killed Saturday in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, a senior park official told CNN.
Jericho was gunned down by a hunter operating illegally, said Johnny Rodrigues, head of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force.
Cecil was also killed illegally, provoking an international outrage because he was a protected animal, and Zimbabwe is seeking the extradition of American dentist Walter Palmer on accusations that he and others illegally hunted the lion, authorities said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/01/world/cecil-the-lion-brother-jericho-illegally-killed/index.html
nankerphelge
(1,012 posts)Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)I hope it's a lengthy stay, at least twenty years.
Paula Sims
(877 posts)Sometimes I think animals have a more evolved soul than humans.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)wrong with us?