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NitroX
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Re: Shoot an elephant to save Africa
02/01/26 04:47 PM

I wonder how elephants populations were kept in manageable numbers before modern weapons.

Lions killing young and very old.

Humans did hunt them with drop spears. Large hunting parties. Pit falls.

But that can't have controlled numbers to a large effect.

If course they travelled and roamed over large areas.

Maybe localised starvation and then migrating kept them in control. With the ability to shift location, the forests were able to recover?

In the early English elephant hunting books, the elephant had already been shot out of the Cape. By the Dutch and the Hottentots. The British hunters were already needing to travel to the "far North" across the Limpopo.

The advent of muzzle loading bigger bore guns.

What a time it would have been to be alive.

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Shoot an elephant to save Africa	NitroX	01/01/26 09:31 PM
Re: Shoot an elephant to save Africa	85lc	02/01/26 04:36 AM
Re: Shoot an elephant to save Africa	Rule303	02/01/26 08:28 AM
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Re: Shoot an elephant to save Africa	Hunter4752001	02/01/26 09:52 AM
Re: Shoot an elephant to save Africa	NitroX	02/01/26 04:47 PM
Re: Shoot an elephant to save Africa	LRF	02/01/26 11:02 PM

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