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Tahir? Tanir? Larger than I thought by a big margin.

Or what is an Tanir?

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Corbett goes to a lot of effort writing to justify when he shot a tiger cub or cubs.

Some a###holes just don't care. Just because other a###holes cheer doesn't mean they are not all a###holes ...

Even today look at some maneaters photos, some of the cats are juveniles. Allegedly because they shoot every cat in the area.

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We live among cougar, wolves, black bear and now increasingly grizzly. It is really interesting to contrast the opinions of folks on the issues: those who want them for sport, those who have livestock, those who just have to live with them, and those who live elsewhere but want to know they are here.

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It's interesting to see how many Americans, often the same ones moan and grow endlessy about wolves. But love lions and complain about Africans poaching, killing, poisoning lions.

Tigers? When I was in India, at Bandavagarh Park, I think it was, a herd boy following up a lost cow chanced upon it and the tiger that had killed it. The tiger killed the boy.

While population encroachment, deforestation, reduced tiger numbers the most, a###holes thinking shooting ninety tigers in a single day by a single Maharajah was laudable certainly contributed to its population decline.

Some of you guys really need to actually read Corbett. He describes the tiger as the Gentleman of the Jungle. As a child wandered the jungle, and tigers ignored him. That tigers generally don't hunt and kill humans. If protecting cubs, most mothers are dangerous. Defending a kill is common for many predators. But Corbett describes why Maneaters usually occur. Age, damaged or worn teeth, injuries wounds. Making it hard for the tiger to hunt and kill it's usual prey.

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To me, predators are an interesting part of nature that keep prey in check but also predators need to be kept in check. Predatrs and predator control are issues that game departments try to resolve and unfortunately receive too much pressure from those that don't understand game managhement.

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The main factor I seeon the internet is one can eat an elk. But one doesn't eat a wolf. The wolves eat elk. And reduce the populations a lot, Human meat hunters get upset. Want them wiped out again.

Of course uncontrolled predator numbers are a conservation problem.

However all that is irrelevant as I was referring to two aholes proudly sitting over a tiger mother and two immature cubs they'd killed.

And as for changed attitudes over time BS, I've also pointed out Corbett's attitude to cub killing. He does talk about it when he killec a Maneaters mother and her cub(s). And spends effort to explain the cub killing may have been necessary

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I'll readily shoot fox cubs. They are a pest, a great killervof native species plus lambs, chickens etc. Very numerous. Not likely under current circumstances to be shot out. Biological controls will probably do it one day.

Foxes are pests. But I like them. Smart game and good to hunt. Soon we will be shooting them in drives to reduce numbers on farms. Unfortunately thevfurd are not good, but shot this time of the year when the younger ones are out before they wisen up.

Now I once mentioned to a visiting German the shooting of Fox cubs. And he said "No!!!!". He was an ignorant pig. Refused to see anything as acceptable elsewhere other than his attitudes from his own country. Foxes might be much rarer in Europe. Hunting in Sweden a hunter got quite excited to shoot a fox. Numbers are much lesser, therefore it's seen as a negative to shoot fox cubs.

Fox cubs vs tiger cubs? Neither are trophies to sit "proudly" over, especially the tiger. An apex predator.

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I'm sorry John. I don't really understand something. It seems (maybe I was wrong, it's the i-net after all) that something bugged you besides cubs (juveniles, whatever the species might be) which you above said you'd shoot if necessary, but I'm not sure what it was. Our predators here are not any longer just stock killers but even those are very serious issues. Those issues here are developing into something much more. So cubs or adults, I understand both approaches. It seems you do, too, but I'm not sure the details.

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Maybe because my post is nothing to do with you.

Maybe because this thread is about the historical photos and the uncontrolled killing of tigers including immature cubs as evifenced in one image. The results including population encroachment is evidence by the extremely endangered status of tigers today.

The slaughter of other predators such as lions, same story and factors, is putting the wild lions species increasingly at extinction risk.

I didn't write what you write above. Don't try to misquote me again.

Now Rod, if you want to continue talking about your pumas, wolves etc start your own thread please.

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