here's something they want to mention
something I saw last night this is or I
should say was Cecil the lion beautiful
animal 13 years old he been wearing a
GPS collar as part of an Oxford
University research project they've been
tracking him for years and during that
time
Cecil became like a local favorite
amongst the tourists and the guides he
was always around people love to see him
on safaris until earlier this month when
a tourist on a hunting trip shot him for
sport and of course everyone is angry
and upset last night I read this story I
happened upon the story in the news
report said they suspected it was a
Spaniard who did it who shot the animal
and I have to admit when I saw it I was
so relieved it wasn't an American I
really was like this is terrible but
thank God it wasn't one of us for once
and then I went online this morning and
learned that turns out it was an
American it was one of us it was a
dentist from Minnesota who paid $50,000
to shoot the line according to the news
he hired a company he flew to Zimbabwe
two locals took him to the national park
they tied a dead animal to the back of a
jeep to lure the lion out of the park
because it's illegal to shoot them in
the park they call it baiting and once
they got the lion out of the park
they put a spotlight on him and then the
dentist shot Cecil with a bow and arrow
but the arrow didn't kill a lion so they
tracked him and 40 hours later shot him
with a gun skinned him and took the head
and left the body there now
unfortunately for them the researchers
at Oxford who are tracking sessile were
able to trace the signal and find the
carcass and the local authorities found
the hunters who they say they realized
too late that they shot an animal with
GPS they tried to destroy the tracking
collar but failed to do that so they
know it was the American hunter whose
name is Walt Palmer is currently in
hiding he closed his dental office in
Bloomington Minnesota and he email the
statement to the news saying I had no
idea that the lion I took was a known
local favorite until the end of the hunt
which first of all stop saying you took
the animal you take aspirin you killed
the lion you didn't take it and he could
did he said to my knowledge
everything about this trip was legal and
properly handled I relied on the
expertise of my local professional
guides to ensure a legal hunt which okay
good let's say we accept at face value
that he thought it was legal and
properly handled
didn't know the lion had a tracking
collar as a local affair the big
question is why are you shooting a lion
in the first place I mean I'm honestly
curious to know why a human being would
feel compelled to do that how is that
fun is it that difficult for you to get
an erection that you need to kill things
if that if that's the case they have a
pill for that it works great just stay
home and swallow it and you save
yourself a lifetime of being the most
hated man in America who never
advertised jell-o pudding on television
and by the way I'm not I'm not against
hunting if you're hunting to eat or to
help keep the animal population healthy
or it's a part of your culture or
something that's one thing but if you're
some a-hole dentist who wants a lions
head over the fireplace on his mancave
so his douchebag buddies can gather
around it and drink scotch and tell him
how awesome he is
that's just vomitus that's and this guy
must have quite a collection of animal
heads because well here he is posing
next to a bear he shot in 2000 he was
convicted of a felony for lying about
where he killed a bear in Wisconsin he
got a year probation for that this is
another lion he killed in 2008 this is a
leopard this is a rhino he killed like
half of Noah's Ark and I don't get I
also don't think it's the answer is to
start a witch hunt for the guy some
people online are saying we should skin
them and feed them to the Lions or witch
it's you know it's crazy but it should
be handled in a lawful way and the men
who took about the Jeep should be made
accountable to but in the meantime I
think it's important to have some good
come out of this disgusting tragedy so
this is the website for the Wildlife
Conservation research unit unit at
Oxford wild CR u org these are the
researchers who put the collar on
sessile in the first place they track
the animals and study them if you want
to do something if you want to make this
into a a positive you cannot start
acting okay okay make a donation to
support them at the very least maybe
maybe we can show the world that not all
Americans are like this Jack Hoel here
this Center that
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