Jericho, Cecil's brother now shot dead

Samsgirl

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3182428/Cecil-s-brother-Jericho-shot-dead-poachers-Zimbabwean-park.html

What the heck is wrong with people.

cruais

Theres no li-on about it... thats tragic











..... as is that sentence

Jimmy Kimmel to have nervous breakdown on air.

Popcorn.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Why do they give such ferocious animals such gay names?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Jeez, the quality of journalism in that piece is the pits.

When contacted on Saturday a woman who answered the phone said he was too devastated to speak.

Who? Jericho?

Keplar240B

Humans truly have to be the most disgusting species to have ever roamed this earth.

Sheep Lover

In other news, some brown kids were blown up in the Middle East. Stay tuned for the weather forecast

Mr_Muffin

Roger the rabbit, Sonic the hedgehog, Jericho the lion.

My turtle is more endangered. Will you all cry if I step on it?

Miley30

Jesus wept

Sheep Lover

Sheep Lover wrote: »

In other news, some brown kids were blown up in the Middle East. Stay tuned for the weather forecast

I keep forgetting I can only care about one thing at a time!

stannis

When is this brutal leonicide going to end?

branie2

Some very cruel people out there

Are you sure this isn't a hoax?

Cecil's facebook page earlier said it was a hoax.

It sounds like a hoax.

Candie

Candie wrote: »

I keep forgetting I can only care about one thing at a time!

The outpouring of grief amongst well off white Americans, particularly the likes of Kimmel, for the big cats has prompted a backlash amongst those who have compared it to the lack of a similar reaction when black people are shot there...

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2015/07/maybe-black-people-should-dress-like-lions-or-how-cecil-the-lion-has-gotten-more-sympathy-than-dead-black-people/

Yes I know, but it's not my point.

My point is that you can care about people and also care about game poaching. Its not a case of pick one, ignore the other.

kunst nugget

Keplar240B wrote: »

Humans truly have to be the most disgusting species to have ever roamed this earth.

I don't know... My dog likes to eat his own poo. That's pretty disgusting...

Keplar240B

Keplar240B wrote: »

Humans truly have to be the most disgusting species to have ever roamed this earth.

Why?

REXER

So many air heads, so few lions!

Caovyn Lineah

Deleted User wrote: »

Why?

What other species kills for sport?

kunst nugget

Candie wrote: »

Yes I know, but it's not my point.

My point is that you can care about people and also care about game poaching. Its not a case of pick one, ignore the other.

I think there's always a certain amount of people that will go out of their way to show how much more socially aware they are by putting people down for reacting to or commenting on a high profile news story. I call them the Just Sayin' clowns.

'Oh, 2 people died in a bomb in Glasgow? 15 villagers died in a drone strike in Iraq. Just saying... '

stannis

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

What other species kills for sport?

Ever heard of cats? You'll see them around occasionally. :P

kunst nugget

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

What other species kills for sport?

Foxes.

kunst nugget

Double post. Sorry.

Wang King

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

What other species kills for sport?

Many species do, man just does it with more panache!

DeadHand

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

What other species kills for sport?

What other species nurses you when you are dying?

arayess

Keplar240B wrote: »

Humans truly have to be the most disgusting species to have ever roamed this earth.

what about those beetles stephen fry was banging on about whose whole life cycle is to eat kids eyes.

they sound more disgusting.

steddyeddy

Some of the arguments here are crackers. I mean you can care about two things at once. I was at my aunts funeral two years ago. No one came up to me and said "you're upset about this yet there's thousands starving in Africa you bastard!!"

DEFTLEFTHAND

Sickening, how do people get off on this. This whole 'we kill just because we can' human mentality is psychotic. Who else but a psycho would get a trill out of shooting an animal for their own pleasure, and paying good money for the opportunity.

arayess

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

What other species kills for sport?

lions....
oh...

cena

Anyone caught shooting these beautiful animals should get life in jail.

steddyeddy

arayess wrote: »

lions....
oh...

The thing is we have the most intelligent brain in the animal kingdom. We're supposed to be above that. Lions also kill the cubs of the previous male. Should we do that too because you know lions do it?

Sheep Lover

Candie wrote: »

I keep forgetting I can only care about one thing at a time!

The faux outrage is getting a little tedious at this stage. Ah, at least it will be the bankers or Irish Water next week.

Do the people who feel so committed to this cause donate to the upkeeping of the sanctuarys?

NIMAN

cena wrote: »

Anyone caught shooting these beautiful animals should get life in jail.

If it was against the law, I'd agree with you, but its not.

It needs to be made illegal first.

kunst nugget

kunst nugget wrote: »

I think there's always a certain amount of people that will go out of their way to show how much more socially aware they are by putting people down for reacting to or commenting on a high profile news story. I call them the Just Sayin' clowns.

'Oh, 2 people died in a bomb in Glasgow? 15 villagers died in a drone strike in Iraq. Just saying... '

Ah, those activists in groups like Black Lives Matter are "Just Sayin' Clowns"?

You are entitled to that opinion. I think they make a very valid observation. We can agree to differ.

arayess

steddyeddy wrote: »

The thing is we have the most intelligent brain in the animal kingdom. We're supposed to be above that. Lions also kill the cubs of the previous male. Should we do that too because you know lions do it?

no. I didn't say or even imply that lions were worthy of copying.

Merely pointing out the error in the rhetorical question asked - I assume it was rhetorical.
I miss cecil and jericho as much as the next facebook user but the is faux outrage and demonising of the human race because of the actions of a few is annoying.

cena

cena wrote: »

Anyone caught shooting these beautiful animals should get life in jail.

What about fishermen, or do we just hate the killers of big cats?

NIMAN

Some animal lives are apparently worth more than others.

It's hard to care about this when I know that there is animal cruelty happening here and people don't give a damn ...

Sheep Lover

I farted and knocked a fly off the table killing him instantly. Should I hand myself in?

Wang King

Sheep Lover wrote: »

I farted and knocked a fly off the table killing him instantly. Should I hand myself in?

Wait 10 mins and then call the fuzz....plus...if you live up to your name they'll probably have you up on lamb-fiddling charges.

Galwayguy35

Deleted User wrote: »

It's hard to care about this when I know that there is animal cruelty happening here and people don't give a damn ...

Are you including everyone in Ireland there or just a few?

feargale

Such whsataboutery!

kunst nugget

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ah, those activists in groups like Black Lives Matter are "Just Sayin' Clowns"?

You are entitled to that opinion. I think they make a very valid observation. We can agree to differ.

I was talking in relation to Candie's original point that we are able to care about more than one thing which was directly related to someone saying meanwhile some brown people died.

Should we not comment on it at all for fear of upsetting other interest groups?

fran17

Another one! Well that's just purrfect ain't it :mad:

kunst nugget

kunst nugget wrote: »

I was talking in relation to Candie's original point that we are able to care about more than one thing which was directly related to someone saying meanwhile some brown people died.

Should we not comment on it at all for fear of upsetting other interest groups?

Oh we are able to care about more than one thing.

And people are entitled to observe that people seem to care more about one thing than another.

dark crystal

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh we are able to care about more than one thing.

And people are entitled to observe that people seem to care more about one thing than another.

How do you know what people care more about?

Jesus, the amount of people on these threads jumping in to sneer at others having an opinion on this subject is baffling. If you find the subject so trivial, why are you even bothering to contribute (and I use that term loosely) at all?

Start up your own thread about ISIS or the Syrian refugee crisis.....oh wait, there are threads about those already! It's like this isn't the only subject people on AH care about at all!

dark crystal

dark crystal wrote: »

How do you know what people care more about?

Jesus, the amount of people on these threads jumping in to sneer at others having an opinion on this subject is baffling. If you find the subject so trivial, why are you even bothering to contribute (and I use that term loosely) at all?

I believe in the case of people involved in Black Lives Matter, they make the simple observation that Jimmy Kimmel hasn't turned on the tears for any other issue. Would that be a good indicator that he seems to care more?

I'm not sneering at anyone for having an opinion, and I assumed this thread would incorporate comment about the reaction to the cat killing and not just a queue of people saying woe is me.

Eugene Norman

kunst nugget wrote: »

I was talking in relation to Candie's original point that we are able to care about more than one thing which was directly related to someone saying meanwhile some brown people died.

Should we not comment on it at all for fear of upsetting other interest groups?

Candie personalised the issue by bringing herself into it. The original post was about brown kids in the Middle East ( it's since morphed into another #americanlivesmatter, but let's let that pass).

The question is why the general outrage about a lion killed by American superceeds, in the U.S. in particular, concern about the many victims of American imperialism, by itself or its proxies.

And yes, there's clearly a limited amount of outrage judging by the Twitter and Facebook posts. And yes it's selective. I don't see Jimmy Kimmel crying over dead Palestinians and I doubt I ever will.

DeadHand

Woe is me.

Sorry to spoil the frenzy, but as I presumed earlier, Jericho is not dead.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/01/us-zimbabwe-wildlife-lion-jericho-idUSKCN0Q63CQ20150801

The brother of Cecil, the lion killed in Zimbabwe by an American hunter last month, is not dead, a researcher monitoring the pride told Reuters, contradicting media reports that Jericho had been killed.

"He looks alive and well to me as far as I can tell," said Brent Stapelkamp, field researcher for the Hwange Lion Research Project which is monitoring the lion with a GPS tag.

A group called the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force posted on its Facebook page that Jericho had been killed at 4 p.m. on Saturday, a report picked up by some Western news media that was rapidly spread on Twitter.