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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (15730)8/13/2007 1:27:02 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
hunting results in a population having a lower average age than would be the case for a non-hunted population.

Any predation does that. And predation is a natural thing. Without predation/hunting, deer over-populate their territory, resulting in starvation and overbrowsing of certain types of plants. You should look at human hunting as a substitute for natural predation by large predators that aren't around much most places.

Thus hunting has a tendency to drive trophy metrics lower for both of the above reasons.

I don't know if that's so, but trophy metrics are just a matter of how many animals live to an old age. Why should anyone except a trophy hunter (a small segment of hunters) care about trophy metrics anyway?
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