I will never understand Man's desire to find the biggest Elephant, Gorilla, Lion (ANY animal really) or, say the Oldest Tree only to kill it. For what?
Your wall? To be donated to a museum so others can see what once WAS alive, thriving and helping their local ecosystem genetically and knowledgeably (matriarch elephants being a prime example of remembering where to lead their herd in tough drought that was only visited in their youth)? Man has always been the most dangerous creature the Earth has created. Because not only do we kill each other and all creatures indiscriminately- we poison our entire environment more with each generation. Only Mankind does such massive destruction. We are worse than any virus or plague.
They do it by individual interest. To brang about it. "I'm not just anyone! I killed the biggest or the last [insert animal name]". The truth is that it is nothing exceptional and it is even abject, but they do not understand it.
Brang brang Brang bran- "Hello, spelling office, how may I direct your call?"
Brang brang
Brang bran-
“喂,拼写办公室吗,请问有什么可以帮您?”
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heckin_miraculous47 赞2025/9/10
When I heard tales of soldiers on boring deployments shooting at cattle, camels, etc. from a distance just to watch them explode. It's when I realized there's just something fucked up about people when they get a gun in their hands.
Pretty sure that's just a specific genre of psycho. There's plenty of us that regularly use guns to poke holes in paper from really far away that could never conceive of doing something that fucked up.
I grew up around hunting and outdoor people. Family's all from Wyoming, Minnesota and ohio. Those people are just scumbags. I've never heard stories like that from anyone I'd consider a friend or a hunter. And most people would despise them too. There's plenty of outdoor enthusiasts that are big on conservation.
Sorry to break it to you, but "trophy hunting" is a European / Victorian era phenomon. So please blame Europeans for this - leave the rest of us out of this 😁
Yes, because Latin, African, and Asian countries suffer from ZERO big game hunting/poaching.
对对对,反正拉美、非洲和亚洲国家的狩猎/偷猎问题为“零”,是吧。
Complex-Frosting39 赞2025/9/11
I was about to say this. It’s a Euro thing. When European settlers saw the Redwoods for the first time, they were so in awe of the huge trees that they cut most of them down to make furniture. Or take the bison….Euro settlers killed over 6 million in part to starve out the Native American populations but also just for the fun of it. It’s capitalism, thirst for conquest, and out of tune with nature mindset they had that contributed to all that. It’s why most of the natural forests in Europe is decimated and why they colonized other parts of the world to strip their resources.
It's NOT a euro thing. It's a Homo sapiens thing. Even those native Americans killed most of the American megafauna as soon as they put their feet on the continent 13 000 years ago. Giant bison - gone. Stag-moose - gone. Yukon horse - gone. Saber-toothed cat - gone. American lion - gone. American mastodon - gone. Columbian mammoth - gone. Giant beaver - gone. Cave lion - gone. Ground sloths - gone. 70-80 % of large mammal species went extinct in Americas relatively soon after Homo sapiens arrived. A few lucky species survived. Africa is the only continent with "plenty" of megafauna because Homo sapiens was evolved there. To be honest, countless of animal species evolved together with Homo species and adapted. On every other continet the arrival of Homo sapiens brought a wave of mass extinctions with it. It's called [Late Pleistocene extinctions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Pleistocene_extinctions).
This is some noble savage BS. The woolly mammoth was hunted to extinction and not just by Europeans and well before capitalism. The "Imperial Hunt" was a very big deal in China under the Qing. Carthage was colonized by Phoenicians and went on to conquer most of the Western Mediterranean. The Arabs colonized all of the Middle East, North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. This is how people are. Not just Europeans or capitalists.
Wait until you see the normalised horrors of the industrial meat farming scene. You are gonna shit bricks.
等你见识到工业化肉类养殖场里那些常态化的恐怖景象时,你就等着吓尿吧。
TiesforTurtles190 赞2025/9/11
Comparing the killing of a gorilla to industrial meat processing can lead to misunderstandings. The loss of a wild, often endangered animal is deeply significant, while industrial meat processing is a widespread practice focused on food production. Both involve taking life but the contexts and ethical considerations are very different.
Yes. The horrors, pain, and suffering (not to mention environmental impact) caused by industrial meat production are many orders of magnitude worse.
是啊。工业化肉类生产造成的恐怖、痛苦和折磨(更不用说环境影响了)要严重好几个数量级。
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Yes the conservation aspect is a different dimension, but from a sheer suffering perspective, that gorilla likely suffered less than the vast majority of factory farmed animals.
lol no dude you are part of the problem, capturing 1 gorilla 100 years ago in a completely different time is unethical but growing and holding animals by the millions in cages and massacring them so people can have 1.99 a pound chicken breast is perfectly ethical? Get fucked. Do you know how the egg industry works? They literally blend up. all the male chicks since they don’t lay eggs, but ya since it will feed your fat ass it’s okay.
Preach, brother. Sadly most people don’t care even if they know.
说得好,兄弟。可惜大多数人就算知道也不在乎。
DocGlabella29 赞2025/9/10
I figure you aren’t going to agree with this, but while agriculture has some horrors, a gorilla is not a chicken. These are some of our closest living relatives, with highly complex emotional inner lives and social networks, deep intelligence, and the ability to communicate via sign language. It’s not the same as killing a human. But it’s close and ecologically more dangerous, given how endangered these guys are.
people really hate being reminded of this!! you’re a bad person for pointing out that this shit happens day in and day out to innocent animals so yall can have a cheeseburger and latte! but i’m sure someone will be here shortly to explain how they’re actually totally different things
That's actually a relief. European colonial "exploration" and conquest, particularly in Africa and particularly in the Congo was and remains so monumentally horrific.
That era saw a lot of animals "stuffed" for a museum display. A zoo enclosure for a gorilla would have been prohibitively expensive. I am a fan of Teddy Roosevelt, but...he went on an expedition to Africa where he killed HUNDREDS of animals to be stuffed and sent back.
那年头有很多动物都被做成了“标本”陈列在博物馆里。要把大猩猩关在动物园里,成本高得吓人。
DynamicCast278 赞2025/9/10
It's dead but looks surprisingly happy about it.
虽然死了,但看起来竟然还挺开心的。
NiktoriaNo23 赞2025/9/11
Actually gorillas smiling is a symbol of fear. He was terrified when he was killed.
其实大猩猩露齿笑代表的是恐惧。它被杀的时候肯定吓坏了。
Zornorph112 赞2025/9/10
I thought it was alive and was going to comment that it looks like he's down for some bondage play. Finding out he's dead sort of takes the fun out of it.
我刚才还以为它是活的,正想评论说它看起来很享受捆绑play呢。知道它已经死了,瞬间感觉没劲了。
shamelesstoesucker55 赞2025/9/12
“sort of”
“瞬间”……
T3NF0LD15 赞2025/9/11
You're into some weird shit.
你这口味也太重了。
NewImprovedPenguin_R16 赞2025/9/11
Does it really take the fun out of it?
真就没劲了?
CantaloupeWitty8700241 赞2025/9/12
So awful
太恶心了。
Dizzy-Pollution646617 赞2025/9/11
Seriously, this photo made me audibly gasp with disgust.
Y'all are gonna really hate Teddy Roosevelt when you hear what I have to tell y'all...
等你们听我说完泰迪·罗斯福(Teddy Roosevelt)干过的事,你们绝对会恨死他的……
UnkleStarbuck26 赞2025/9/11
Murdered.
被谋杀了。
AdorableTip954754 赞2025/9/10
Had the same thought. On the one hand the gorilla doesn‘t look dead, more like he‘s happy to have friends to play with knowing he could bust the chains in the blink of an eye, on the other hand how would you get an alive gorilla to act that way.