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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (15735)	8/13/2007 2:27:19 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Any predation does that. AFAIK, hunting specifically avoids the 1'st year young ones, predation almost certainly prefers those. How do you arrive at similar population age distributions? I don't know if that's so, but trophy metrics are just a matter of how many animals live to an old age. That is a major component, but genetics is another. As I've pointed out, African Elephant tusk size is a good example of hunting driving population genetics away from the trophy metric. Why should anyone except a trophy hunter (a small segment of hunters) care about trophy metrics anyway? I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of hunters prefer a trophy animal to one which is not. That is why earlier I posed the question of how many hunters would skip a truly excellent trophy buck in their sights and opt instead to wait for a less magnificent animal? That is the question you need to answer to understand huntings impact on trophy genetics. I'm pretty sure I know which way the answer would go for > 90% of hunters. So that is your answer about the long term intelligence of most hunters.