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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Bob Parson's elephant killing.
warning: video may be considered graphic by some.
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GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons under fire for Zimbabwe elephant-hunting video
March 30, 2011 | 11:21 am
GoDaddy.com CEO and founder Bob Parsons, right, and his wife Renee pose on the red carpet at a recent event. GoDaddy.com Chief Executive Bob Parsons has been drawing angry comments and threats of boycotts and cancellations after he posted a video of him killing a problem bull elephant during a hunting expedition in Zimbabwe.
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I spend a few weeks in Zimbabwe each year helping the farmers deal with problem elephants. The people there have very little, many die each year from starvation and one of the problems they have is the elephants, of which there are thousands and thousands, that trash many of their fields destroying the crops. The tribal authorities request that I and others like me, patrol the fields before and during the harvest -- we can't cover them all, there are just a few of us -- and drive the elephant from the fields. The farmers try to run the elephants away by cracking whips, beating drums and lighting fires. All of this is ignored by the elephants. When my team catch elephants in a field (there are never just one) we typically kill one of them and the rest leave for good. After we kill an elephant the people butcher the elephant and it feeds a number of villages. These people have literally nothing and when an elephant is killed it's a big event for them, they are going to be able to eat some protein. This is no different than you or I eating beef. If at all possible we avoid elephant cows and only kill mature bulls. By just killing bulls it has no effect on the elephant social structure (as it is matriarchal) as well as the herd size. The reason is another bull quickly steps up and breeds in place of the bull taken.
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Was this a bad thing or a good thing that he did?
As I saw the ending and all the people that was there to get meat off the bones of the bull elephant, if they did not get the meat they had to get food elsewhere.
I think it was a good thing, one animal died, others got to eat it. It did not appear to be wasteful.
I'm not currently able to comment on the conservation of animals and the culling because of acceptable numbers, I'm only able to comment on the people who are hungry and not able to get enough food for themselves.
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