German Hunter pays £39,000 to kill largest elephant in living memory

This is so sad. It isn't even that he poached the elephant to sell the ivory to feed his family. He did it for pure sickening 'fun'. Dispicable

http://www.youtubesub.com/news?id=14708&Anger-biggest-elephant-shot-living-memory-killed-German-hunter-Zimbabwean-game-park

I don't understand hunting. If someone took on an elephant in hand to hand combat and won, I would be seriously impressed (and check if it was April 1st). But if you have a powerful gun there's very little skill involved on the part of the hunter, with most of the skill being the gun makers who made something able to fire such a large calibre.

Wow shooting an animal from a distance with a rifle and waiting for it to die, so alpha predator. If he's going to do it for some sort of exhilaration/adrenaline rush give the guy machete and let him get his hands dirty...I'll be putting my money on the elephant tbh.

It is sort of like canned hunting in a way, the animal has no chance to fight back

It would only have been a fair fight if he went in without weapons, the majestic elephant probably wouldn't have touched him or even perceived such a lowly, inferior human being as a threat, same with that cowardly American dentist. My Dad always said humans are the worst thing to happen to this planet and he's right.

Rest in peace all animals who are victims of pure apathy and callousness, the evil of humanity can affect you no longer.

Nature isn't fair.

Humans have superior intelligence and opposable thumbs which allow us to use tools and design the perfect tools for the job. Which in this case would be a 600 nitro.

I agree nature isn't fair, but killing usually serves as a mean to an end, mostly the food chain etc. (I'm a vegetarian but I still acknowledge this) and I am surrounded by meat eaters who are animal lovers and they would agree murdering majestic creatures in cold blood is cowardly.

Yes humans invented guns, but did these two self gratifying idiots gather raw materials and construct weapons of their own, or go out into the actual wild on a hunt (maybe for survival) no- they paid to enter a national park or den which serves as supposed sanctuaries for the animals, the guns were manufactured and purchased, it's a cop out, I use electricity, doesn't mean I discovered/harnessed it and the use of guns and human intelligence has little to do with this matter, I think it's about morality and empathy.

I can't possibly fathom what there is to gain in a senseless killing such as this. It just satisfies their enormous egos accompanied by their sociopathic smiles next to the carcasses. What was the point?

(sorry hope that didn't come across as a rant aimed at you, I'm just venting my general frustrations with cases such as these)