Based on his social media presence, it is evident that Watkins was a passionate hunter who believed wildlife conservation was crucial. His profile displays him posing with various trophies he’d acquired through the years, including mountain lion and multiple deer.
Double think, or unintuitive definition of conservation
Asher was fatally injured in a sudden and unprovoked attack by an unwounded buffalo. He was tracking it together with one of our professional hunters and one of our trackers
Unprovoked? Seems like they were planning to kill it.
Hunters think they’re doing a service in killing certain animals, but the truth is they just get hard when they take a life. Fuck all hunters.
They are usually champions of conservation provided they can hunt in the nature they are protecting.
The buffalo has a right to defend itself.
No but seriously, why do modern “hunters” think they’re entitled to not getting killed by their prey when that’s literally how hunting works? Prehistoric humans that actually had to rely on hunting for food got killed by their prey all the time. Even obligate carnivores like big cats who spend every waking hour perfecting their hunt get killed by herbivores defending themselves.
If they truly respected the hunt as part of the natural order, getting killed by your prey should not be a tragedy. It should be “oh well tough luck that’s just how it is.”
And nothing of value was lost.
“Unprovoked” in the sense that no one had started shooting yet. Though what caused the buffalo to randomly charge directly at and over some guy dressed like a hunter, I guess we’ll never know. Certainly seems like a major fuck up on someone’s part.
As for the “conservation” thing yeah, it’s bullshit on top of stolen valor. There’s some hunters, poor folks, who rely on the land and so do develop a more conservationist approach to the idea that the habitats they require to live must be protected. And for deer hunters, because ranchers killed off all the wolves, deer do need predators to thin populations or else they over stress their habitat and start dying from shit like CWD. So its a human made problem but human hunters are one solution.
But big game hunters are rich folks that pay real hunters to show them around and then proclaim themselves to be environmentalists for assisted poaching of endangered species. They rely on those other things I said to provide moral cover for their gross hobby. Fuck big game hunters.
Though what caused the buffalo to randomly charge directly at and over some guy dressed like a hunter, I guess we’ll never know.
Prey animal that weighs as much as a truck and has survived for millions of years with everything trying to eat it: Has evolved a brain capable of identifying predators based on past interactions and decides to defend itself. Literally the same thing they do to wolves and cougars and shit.
Humans: Surprised Pikachu face “But I thought they were too dumb to do that!”
The fucking gall to call this “unprovoked.” Your presence and smell provoked them because they saw their family getting gunned down by your species dumbass. What, did you fucking expect them to just stand there like a video game NPC waiting for you to initiate the battle?
Thoughts and prayers
And this summer takes another one
Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.
Oh well another millionaire gone, not much of a loss other than to his family members.
Score!
Scratch one more for nature. We could help, too. Orcas can’t hoard all the fun.
$10,000 and end up dead? That was a bad deal
