Recently, the Chinese man brutally tortured and killed the kangaroo on the Internet, and the video went viral in the WeChat circle of friends, and the kangaroo's neck was cut 19 times in a row in laughter, and finally died of anger. The incident aroused the anger of Chinese and foreign netizens, and the video was uploaded by the party concerned to show off on the Internet.
According to netizens, the man wrote in his WeChat personal introduction, "The ultimate goal: hunting African rhinos", and there is no shortage of outdoor photos such as catching lobsters in his circle of friends.
According to the "Australia Today" website yesterday, the Victorian Department of Environment, Land and Water Planning issued a notice saying that the Chinese suspected of abusing kangaroos in the online video earlier have been arrested in the eastern district of Melbourne and charged with "harming protected wildlife".
Hundreds of years ago, hunting may have been a necessity for survival, but today most hunters track and kill animals not out of necessity, but simply for the thrill of hunting. This cruel pastime has left animal families orphaned, or hunters have been seriously injured by a mistake, causing them to die a slow and painful death.
The Beatles had a famous song called "Happiness is a Warm Gun", the title of which originally came from the slogan on the cover of a gun magazine, the word "warm" means that the gun has just shot an object and still has residual warmth, and the whole sentence means that shooting an object with a gun is a kind of happiness. Band member Paul McCartney once recalled: "It's so morbid that it means 'come and buy your killing weapons.'"
Why would anyone take pleasure in hunting? This is a question that many people don't understand. A recent study showed that by paying large sums of money to hunt the biggest and most dangerous animals, hunters are signaling to the crowd that they can afford the high cost of "photo props". To show off, to show off your identity: a lion = a Cadillac = a yacht = a mansion with an animal's head hanging indoors...
For these hunters, there is no other way to show off their identities than to post photos of themselves with the dead animals on the Internet and grin.
Studies have also shown that hunters often have happy smiles on their faces when they take pictures with the animals they have killed, and that the larger and more dangerous the animals killed, the stronger these smiles become.
Criminologist Sancy Marlet has studied people who see hunting as a sport, and finally found that these people have the personality traits of the "dark three personalities":
1. Narcissism (self-appreciation, lack of empathy)
2. Machiavellianism (cunning, good at manipulation)
3. Psychopathology (lack of empathy, prone to impulsive behavior)
And many of these traits are also present in murderers.
Is hunting effective in controlling species populations?
Some proponents of hunting often say that hunting can help "protect" or "control the population of species", but the opposite is true. Certain animals are bred for hunters to kill.
The delicate balance between ecosystems ensures the survival of most species without human interference. Nature's predators maintain this balance by hunting old and infirm individuals.
However, hunters who want to hang the head of an animal in their homes hunt it – often the biggest and strongest animals, and it is on them that a group depends on them to stay strong. Elephant poaching is thought to be responsible for the increase in the number of tuskless animals in Africa; In Canada, hunting has led to a 25% reduction in bighorn sheep's horns in 40 years. According to the journal Nature, "Hunting may have a greater impact on population genes than we know." ”
Natural processes can stabilize populations even if animal populations exceed environmental capacity under occasional natural conditions. Although hunger and disease are unfortunate, it is nature that allows the healthy and strong animals to survive and the advantages of the other members of the group to be preserved. When hunters kill the strongest members of an animal population, the offspring of weaker individuals struggle to find food and gain the strength to survive extreme weather, so hunting can lead to hunger rather than prevention.
October 2006 bear hunting | CowgirJules | CC by-NC-SA 2.0
In order to obtain the skin, teeth, and meat of animals, or to make them into medicines, or for commercial purposes for human entertainment, animals are hunted, and bait and traps are set up to capture them, which greatly contributes to the extinction of certain species, such as migratory pigeons, western black rhinos, and the Styra manatee, a large marine mammal related to the dugong. The Javan rhino, Sumatran rhino, white rhino, and Indian rhino have all been listed as endangered, just as the demand for rhino horn continues to grow. The survival of many cetaceans has also been deemed threatened.
Many people hunt for morbid pleasure and the pleasure of killing, and at the same time, hunting also leads children to lack empathy for animals, making children mistakenly think that "happiness is a warm gun". We have come to the 21st century, and hunting is no longer comparable to two million years ago, and it is time for this practice to end.
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