Why do some people kill the elephants?
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- 3+ months ago by Rajasarka...
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- kill, people, elephant
Answers (5)
Elephant hunting expeditions in places like Africa are very expensive and generate income for the local population. Also, the elephants tusks are made of ivory which is thought to be an aphrodisiac in some cultures. Ivory is also used to create expensive works of art.
The killing of the elephants creates revenue for some people, and an elephant head to hang on the wall for others. Also, there is a large black market demand for ivory which pays money to the poor starving indigenous people’s.
Prior to the US civil war, war was identical to hunting. Since a ruler's first concern had to be national defense, war was uppermost in most people's minds, and hunting was a way to keep in practice for war.
The civil war was the first war NOT fought by professional soldiers. It was also the first war in which guns were a major factor. So war is fundamentally changed, but hunting was firmly fixed in everybody's minds as a manly thing to do. For example, John Philip Sousa was presented as a hunter to offset the public's assumption that music was a feminine activity. Vladimir Putin is presented the same way in Russia to give the public the impression that they have a manly president.
Hunting is not as important for manly appearance any more, but it is still in many people's minds. Poaching is the major problem nowadays. Animal parts are still very valuable in eastern societies, especially China. Game keepers have taken to killing hunters on sight, since nothing else deters them. Apparently that is working.
