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In a recent appeal to hunters to support gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, NPR sports commentator Frank DeFord called hunting "a perfectly reasonable sports hobby." But not one of those placating words describes hunting accurately. A "perfectly reasonable sports hobby" is flag football or even ping pong — not a pastime …
Continue reading "PETA Takes on the NRA"
I'm sure you won't be surprised to learn that PETA opposes hunting. After all, it's a no-brainer: Chasing and shooting animals (with a gun or a bow and arrow) causes terror. Mates grieve, young animals can starve when their mothers are killed, and hunting leaves wounded but unrecovered animals to die slowly and wretchedly from blood loss, infection, …
Continue reading "Looking at a Hunter's Heart of Darkness"
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November is the peak month for collisions between cars and deer, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Insurance groups estimate that about one in every 100 drivers will be involved in a deer-vehicle collision at some point in his or her life. A fatal crash late last month …
Continue reading "Deer-Car Collisions Increase During Hunting Season"
Maybe you've wondered what it's like to view the world through the eyes of another animal, say a cat, a dog, or, more to the point, a deer. Here's your chance to do exactly that, or at least to witness how deer see hunters. The scientists who figured …
Continue reading "The Triumph of Military Technology Over … Bambi?"
