How does hunting help animals?!
I'm asking from another user's answer on another question!. They say that hunting deer and other such wildlife helps keep the population up!? How is this possible!? I'm only wondering!. Just a clear explanation will do!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
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Please no neggies as this is an honest and educated answer!. I have almost enough units for a biology minor (1 class short of that) so I do know what I am writing about!.
Long ago, FDR instituted a plan where deer were protected and could not be hunted!. Sadly, the deer population continued to expand until there was not enough food for them to eat!. The deer then tried to forage on bare ground!. They starved!.
Then the slow process of starvation moved in and the deer died slow painful deaths!.
Until man began to change the environment, nature built in controls so the deer population was able to limit its growth, thereby preventing starvation and illness from lack of food!.
Now, in order to help most animal populations survive we need to assist them through keeping their population from over running their food supply!. This means hunting!.
I don't hunt, have no desire to hunt, but it is scientific fact that the humane method of hunting helps the animal population grow, stay healthy and not die painful deaths through starvation and sickness!.
also, I did not choose FDR because he was a Democrat!. I chose him as this is a standard case study in wildlife management!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Long ago, FDR instituted a plan where deer were protected and could not be hunted!. Sadly, the deer population continued to expand until there was not enough food for them to eat!. The deer then tried to forage on bare ground!. They starved!.
Then the slow process of starvation moved in and the deer died slow painful deaths!.
Until man began to change the environment, nature built in controls so the deer population was able to limit its growth, thereby preventing starvation and illness from lack of food!.
Now, in order to help most animal populations survive we need to assist them through keeping their population from over running their food supply!. This means hunting!.
I don't hunt, have no desire to hunt, but it is scientific fact that the humane method of hunting helps the animal population grow, stay healthy and not die painful deaths through starvation and sickness!.
also, I did not choose FDR because he was a Democrat!. I chose him as this is a standard case study in wildlife management!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Hunting is one but not the only method used to control wildlife herds!. Fish and Game authorities determine how many animals can me maintained in a specific habitat area!. If that limit is reached, they then would allow a certain number of animals to be culled from the existing herd so that a healthy number is mainained!. The number of animals that can be hunted normally varies from year to year depending on the existing population!. if there are too many animals, then the authorities allow hunting!. if ther are not enough, then they close off that specific area until a healthy herd/population is achieved!. One thing they try to avoid is hungry animals wandering into human populated areas!. In such cases, animals are ultimately the losers!.
By the way, in the US, starvation and predation are the two leading causes of death in wildlife populations!. Followed by accidents disease and other natiural causes!. Hunting is not!. Example of the approx 300,000 deer killed in California some years ago, only 34,000 were killed by hunters!. The rest were as I have mentioned above!. In fact, hunting was not enough to control wild hog populations!. Fish and Game had to neuter hogs jut to control populations!. The problem was becasue wild hogs were eating a lot of the produce from crop farms situated along the California Central coast area!.
The thing that one poster was referring to was the so called Roosevelt Elk that were segregated into a protected area (from predators and humans) for the purpose of maintaining the gene pool Unfortunately, the elk instead of getting bigger and healthier became smaller and sickly because of lack of food!. The "experiment" was stopped because it was determined that the animals were starving after a population critical mass was reached!.
Contrary to one sanctimonius post by a college student, human population control are in place!. Things are being done to feed the hungry, things are being done to control birth!. Your simplified, absolute for-the-sake-of-an-argument analogy is childish and illogical!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
By the way, in the US, starvation and predation are the two leading causes of death in wildlife populations!. Followed by accidents disease and other natiural causes!. Hunting is not!. Example of the approx 300,000 deer killed in California some years ago, only 34,000 were killed by hunters!. The rest were as I have mentioned above!. In fact, hunting was not enough to control wild hog populations!. Fish and Game had to neuter hogs jut to control populations!. The problem was becasue wild hogs were eating a lot of the produce from crop farms situated along the California Central coast area!.
The thing that one poster was referring to was the so called Roosevelt Elk that were segregated into a protected area (from predators and humans) for the purpose of maintaining the gene pool Unfortunately, the elk instead of getting bigger and healthier became smaller and sickly because of lack of food!. The "experiment" was stopped because it was determined that the animals were starving after a population critical mass was reached!.
Contrary to one sanctimonius post by a college student, human population control are in place!. Things are being done to feed the hungry, things are being done to control birth!. Your simplified, absolute for-the-sake-of-an-argument analogy is childish and illogical!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Naturally the deer population would be kept in baalnce by predators!.!.!.but here in scotland we wiped out these predators!.!.!.so in order to maintain this balance we have to fill in for the predators themselves!.!.!.somtimes we may kill too many or too little as we are not a natural predator for them really!.!.!.!.!.Its better to die after living a good life with lots of food getting shot painlessly in the head than to starve for months and then die in agony as there are too many of the for the land they are on!.!.!.or getting hit by a car and lying at the road dying over the course of days!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I would just like to point out that humans do MUCH more damage to the environment than any other animal!. There are many humans that will starve to death, although not because there is a lack of food!. However, I don't see anyone advocate killing these "extra" humans!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
ti helps to cull the heard, because we have eliminated the natural predators (wolves and cats) from the wild!. this helps to ensure that the population has enough habitat and food!. the meat is also very healthy to eat!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
With natural predators at such a low level deer would soon overpopulate and mass starvation would ensue!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
It doesn't, it kills them!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
it doesn't help animals!. it helps developers so they can build more real estate!.Www@FoodAQ@Com