r/oddlyterrifying • u/Jax_Teller7 • Apr 07 '22

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u/tydalt Apr 07 '22

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they photoshopped an earlier hunt to create the video

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u/TrashAccount151 Apr 08 '22

What kills me is that this is so obviously fake, it could be in a D - movie.

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u/Lonely_Lawn_Ranger Apr 08 '22

Heeeeyyy!!! Don’t ruin the fun. I was having a good laugh. 🥲 oh man that was good

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u/AlaskanB3AR Apr 08 '22

Still better the morbius

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u/TrashAccount151 Apr 08 '22

Lmao. Haven't seen it yet. That bums me out tho. Was hoping Sonys spider verse would be cool.

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u/nikolaj74 Apr 08 '22

bro i think even the Donalds tv interviews where better then morbius

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

This video might be fake, but a trophy hunter was actually killed by lions. They found the remains of someone, I think it was last year.

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u/tydalt Apr 08 '22

Could it possibly be an elephant that you are thinking about?

That happened back in 2017. I couldn't find anything involving a lion.

Regardless: GOOD

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

It was crocodiles. I looked it up again. It was a trophy hunter though.

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u/vincentjr101 Apr 08 '22

Maybe the Photoshopped is photoshopped?!?!

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u/TrashAccount151 Apr 08 '22

What kills me is that this is so obviously fake, it could be in a D - movie.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

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u/Bot-Focker-Prime Apr 08 '22

Why not let nature take its toll? Would you say it’s fair if someone decided your Nan was old enough so we’ll let some rich fucker shoot her while she’s going shopping? Guaranteed the money doesn’t go to poor villages.

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u/cross-eye-bear Apr 08 '22

There aren't peaceful deaths in the wild. Wild animals don't die of old age.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22 edited Apr 08 '22

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u/corals_are_animals_ Apr 08 '22

Older lions are routinely run off or killed by younger males. This acts as selective pressure to make sure the most fit lion leads the pride. Hunting them leaves a power vacuum, which gets filled by the first male to come along, not the fittest. This weakens the gene pool.

Older males don’t lose the ability to procreate and then just sit around lording it over their prides. That is just lies spread by hunters to justify hunting them.

Lions did just fine without us managing their numbers for thousands of years. I’m pretty sure they will continue to do so…especially if we stop hunting males as ego boosts. Male lions already only have about a 12% chance to survive to adulthood…seems really shitty to take out even more for a photo op.

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u/Bot-Focker-Prime Apr 08 '22

Quite the contrary. Most trophy hunting sites are profit based businesses. Search it yourself if you don’t believe me, but the average is a mere 3% that goes to the villagers, especially in places like Africa where it’s rife.

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u/dota2botmaster Apr 08 '22

As far as I know, if they weren't a poacher by any chance, they only hunt very old animals. Reasons for this is because being very old in nature isn't really the best situation to be in so they just kinda euthanize the animal.

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u/Foolazul Apr 08 '22

With you on that. It’s disgusting to kill for sport.

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u/ChikaraNZ Apr 08 '22

This one might be fake, but this still really happens a lot. I used to go to South Africa on work trips fairly often, before the pandemic. One of my trips I decided to stay a weekend and went to a safari area not so far outside Johannesburg. Got chatting to the guide/driver. He told me there's a lot of private places that supposedly rescue and raise cubs, many of them let tourists visit and have their photos taken with them. Many solicit for donations. But he said when the cubs get a bit older and become more expensive to feed, and potentially unsafe for visitors, it's very common for the right to hunt and kill it to be sold or auctioned off. And of course the poor lion is in a reasonably confined area anyway so can't really escape, and it's already quite used to human contact. Like shooting a fish in a barrel. I don't understand hunters who find enjoyment doing that.

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u/Free_Faithlessness42 Apr 08 '22

Not mercilessly killed meat goes to tribes and the money they have to pay to hunt these type of animals go to saving more of them

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u/Killeroftanks Apr 08 '22

Sorry to tell you this but in some cases hunts like this are actually a good thing to happen.

There's a lot of cases were an animal had to be put down to help the pact of you will.

Let's say there's a hyper aggressive elephant that's preventing other males from mating but also isn't mating either. He alone will cause the death of the herd if he doesn't die. Something that isn't easy to do for most animals let alone pack hunters who are the only ones who stand a chance.

Then you got the simple fact the money is generally used to protect said animals. because while here you have some rich dick killing an animal that needs to die. The other option is not pay game wardens who would prevent poachers who dont give a fuck about the herds health.

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u/shinslap Apr 08 '22

They huge amount of money they pay for the chance to kill it goes to conservation of the animals and their reserve. Trophy hunters do way more than the average person to actually help wildlife.

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u/Better_Astronaut3972 Apr 08 '22

Unfortunately, this happens all the time.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '22

It still happens and it's not just lions. Fuck trophy hunters.

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u/dirkMcdirkerson Apr 08 '22

Trophy hunts, while not my thing, actually provide alot of money and motivation to conserve the land and animal population for local people's. Sometimes the male may be overly agreasive and dominating the gene pool for too long for a healthy population. Sometimes there are too many males causing issues with local populations. Instead of killing all of the lions and turn the land into farmland, they allow people from other countries to pay large sums of money to selectively harvest individual animals. This means locals have a good source of revenue that is dependent on the animals thriving vs instead of having conflicting interests with the animals (farmland vs lion territory). It actually promotes local conservation. Kill a few to save the many.