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...banning cruel traps, Question One would ban the use of hunting dogs to hunt bears or bobcats. Hounding, as this practice is called, "is the moral and sporting equivalent of shooting a caged animal," according to some state legislators who support Question One. Dogs with radio collars corner their prey, allowing the hunter effortlessly to locate and shoot the helpless animal...
...stocked in convenient locations only so they may more easily be fished or hunted. For example, inedible fish in Cape Cod ponds were poisoned to death and replaced with trout at the demand of fishermen. Hunters may also cause clearcutting to encourage increases in the populations of their preferred prey. Hunters often cause overpopulation as they claim to control...
...bones from larger animals like crocodiles that might have fed a carrion eater. Some pterosaurs had beaks shaped like those of spoonbills. Pterodaustro had a mouthful of strainer-like teeth that it probably used to filter microscopic plankton from the water. Pteranodon is thought to have scooped up its prey and stashed it in a pelican-like throat pouch...
...Chris Carter and one of the most eagerly awaited debuts of the fall season, suffers from delivering its point too aggressively. The show is constantly contrasting the bleak offices and dark labs in which Black works to hunt the deranged cult leaders and sexual serial killers who are his prey, with the image of his blindingly yellow Seattle home, framed always by a blue sky that is eerie in its brilliance. Says Carter: "For me the whole reason to do the show was that yellow house--a bright center in a dark universe." Meet Frank Black, Everypatriarch, on a mission...
Wrangham suggested that lethal raiding might be related to hunting. In other words, nature selects in favor of the violent chimpanzee because that animal would be a more successful hunter. It might be possible, then, to substitute a rival of the same species for prey in the mind of the chimpanzee...