Killer Crocodile
If you were responsible for dealing with a crocodile who had killed a person, wouldn't you want to do something a little more secure than just relocating it to a different part of the wild???
I sure hope they at least tag it so they know if it's getting too close to civilization--or better yet put it in a zoo. Best yet, kill it. I like animals, but have no tolerance for man-killers.
Why would they deal with a situation like this by simply relocating the beast? It doesn't make sense to me.
I sure hope they at least tag it so they know if it's getting too close to civilization--or better yet put it in a zoo. Best yet, kill it. I like animals, but have no tolerance for man-killers.
Why would they deal with a situation like this by simply relocating the beast? It doesn't make sense to me.
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Posted by purple_kangaroo at 8:40 PM[Permanent link]
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Many creatures can be predators of humans. It does not make sense for us to kill them all. The real problem is rampant development, which means that we humans are encroaching on all the wild spaces. As we destroy habitat for other creatures, crowding in on them, of course there are going to be negative interactions between humans and other animals.
We need to contain human civilization so that we still have places on this earth for other creatures. Right now we are not doing such a good job with that.
Jo(e), I agree that we need more areas for animals to live where they aren't likely to come into contact with a lot of people.
I also agree that we can't and shouldn't kill every creature which can be a predator or tends to be dangerous to humans. Some animals, like venomous snakes, we can reasonably expect to attack humans if a human gets too close.
But for animals like crocodiles, bears, and cougars, unprovoked attacks on humans are rare because they are not a part of the animal's normal behavior. These kinds of animals will generally, if they can, flee from humans rather than attacking them.
So when you have, for instance, a bear that purposely stalks and eats people, this is an aberration from what we can generally expect from the species.
If an animal that would normally flee from humans stalks and attacks instead, we can reasonably expect that same animal to do it again--and that its offspring would also have more of a tendency to do so. In such a case, my opinion is that it's irresposible to leave the animal where it is likely to kill again. We need to either confine it, monitor it to make sure it stays away from civilization, or put it down.
Just as I think it would be irresponsible to keep a dog who has attacked and killed a person, I think simply moving a crocodile who has killed someone is very possibly just delaying its killing another person.
Maybe it's my human-centric world view :), but I see the sacrifice of the freedom or possibly the life of a renegade wild animal as a dramatically lesser evil than having it kill another human.
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