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African Elephant War Bow Questions
bow-toxo:
JW Halverson. Good and informed points. Unfortunately the "carrying capacity of the land they inhabit" is continually rreduced by irresponsible human overpopulation, a high number of children coupled with environmental destruction by natives and foreigners alike [ 90% rain forest destruction in Cameroon.in 30 years ] which makes it easy for elephants to exceed the "carrying capacity". Teaching the human population abstinence would be a better idea, but perhaps more difficult.
JW_Halverson:
kinda sad to think the elephants probably are more likely to learn to limit their population.
iowabow:
--- Quote from: Hawkeye1974 on July 05, 2011, 11:12:16 am ---Watched the video that is one POWERRFUL BOW!
The arrow length might work for me, I am 6'6" and weigh about 316 pounds.
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Geeeee! 6.6 and 316 you don't need a bow you could just punch it in the face.
Prarie Bowyer:
I forget that areas now because elephant will never be on my list of "stuff to shoot" but the safari hunts have made a comeback becasue of a combination of good government and a rare occasion when well structured market incentives worked out. It's not so much that the habitat is reduced and thus carrying capicity is reduced, at least in the regions I'm thinking of.
Hunting and eco-safari are big business for them with little else to market or trade on the world market. Too keep the money coming in then the resource needs to be optimaly mnaged.
Side point "Naked Economics" has an interesting if depressing bit on the market for Rhino horn. Poor buggers are probably doomed.
I didn't know you could eat elephant. Well I guess "bush meat" is just that. Primeaval slabs of chewy meat from which to extract protien. There are some elegant and tasty "deer looking" animals there I'd love to sink an arrow into.
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: Prarie Bowyer on September 09, 2011, 03:14:36 am ---I didn't know you could eat elephant. Well I guess "bush meat" is just that. Primeaval slabs of chewy meat from which to extract protien. There are some elegant and tasty "deer looking" animals there I'd love to sink an arrow into.
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Habitat is definitely reduced in Africa by population increase with too many kids. I can't imagine what regions you are thinking of. Even in the arctic polar bear habitat is reduced by higher temperatures that some people outside of Texas call "global warming".
It's possible to eat elephant. Elephants culled in South Africa are turned into "biltong" which is elephant jerky. Of course poachers don't bother. We have "bush meat too", deer, moose, wild boar, wild turkey, rabbit.
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