Comments on: New African Antelope Discovered

By: BukitTimahMonkeyMan

BukitTimahMonkeyMan — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:49:46 +0000

In your FACE Cuvier!That goes double for all the unbelievers out there!

By: shmargin

shmargin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:38:51 +0000

Um. Chopped, you completely missread what I typed. I was agreeing with you to an extent, when I was talking to the other guy, I was saying they have to shoot them to survive. I was making a point that there are all those things despite the fact we do them.

I felt you both made it sound like it was such a bad thing that they eat them because you think its interesting. I say, people are doing what they have to do to survive.

Anyways, at least in my opinion, this comment thread has skewed off topic and is no longer relevant. I hope those antelope are delicious.

By: choppedlow

choppedlow — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:32:00 +0000

Also, there will still be lots of deer running around even after everyone at your work shoots them all. You see, the Fish and Game dept. spends millions on keeping tabs on the deer population. They only allow a certain number of tags per season, and those tags are won by a lottery. Then you figure only half of those tags get filled. If they have low populations, they will even stop the hunt all together. If people didn’t hunt there would be deer all over the place, starving and sick. Also, thank the fishermen who are the only reason the salmon still run in California. They would have been netted for food and decimated a long time ago if it wasn’t for the efforts of the F and G. Most hunters report those who poach game, liter, leave fires going…. Us hunters enjoy the outdoors and take trashing it personally. If you have a beef with our lands being trashed, feel free to venture into the AZ deserts along the border and see the two thousand tons of trash that the illegals leave behind (average 8 lbs per person). Those are the most fragile ecosystems we have in this country, and no one will even bother to do anything about it. Start there.

By: choppedlow

choppedlow — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:21:53 +0000

@Shmargin, nothing says “I’m better than you (and everyone else) like using the phrase “douchy”. When you have gone to the tip of the Sea of Cortez (El Gulfo to be exact) with a group from UofA to research a rare desert horny toad only found near the estuaries, and you find a local family who finds them all the time and have grown to find them quiet tasty, you will know what I mean when I say that a local will find something we think is rare, and put it in a “tortilla”. I meant it literally because it happens all the time. We see these animals a lot different than a local who is hungry.

By: shmargin

shmargin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:21:28 +0000

Its not new. It didnt fall out of the sky the day this report got posted, and people started shooting it.

How much longer will there still be deer running around when the guys at my work go hunting and kill em every year? How will there still be fish in the ocean if we keep eating them? How do we still have cows after a billion patties served?

Hunting and eating animals is what these people have to do to survive. There is no cow farm there genetically manipulating cows to make good beef for dinner.

Go to Africa and open a Wendys if you’re worried about them eating an antelope you haven’t seen before.

By: ludvig

ludvig — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:05:10 +0000

yeah but how long will this “new species” be around if like our friend in the pic shoots them all!

By: shmargin

shmargin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:12:10 +0000

@choppedlow

Kind of a douchy sounding comment. I’m new here, but still, to say they “want to find a new species and stuff it in a tortilla” is moronic. Its not like the people here hunting with a WWII era rifle they had to trade home made goods to get, is going to plug into Google to check and make sure hes hunting and eating something that us fat slobs checking our websites from McDonalds have heard of it.

They’ve probably been eating it for a hundred years, just because we recently took the time to notice what less fortunate countries are doing to survive, is our fault, not theirs.

By: Hapa

Hapa — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:06:11 +0000

Too all future Bigfoot and or other cryptid hunters out there: look at the last pic on this thread showing the hunter and the dead Walter’s Duiker: that’s how you find a new species. Not by prints or hair, but a body, living or dead.

Do thou likewise.

By: choppedlow

choppedlow — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:40:13 +0000

Just goes to show that for everyone of us who would love to find a new unclassified animal to study and document, there is another who wants to find a new unclassified animal to stuff into a tortilla. Sad way to find these cute little guys, but it’s usually the locals who say “Yah, I’ve seen one of those just the other day. It tasted like chicken.” A find is a find, I guess.