Thread: Elephant cull
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Old 30-11-2007, 04:22 PM
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Cross border parks, is there a remote chance this could happen - what countries are envolved? It seems the best of the options stated.

I hate the thought of culling - I have seen on TV how elephants cry and grieve, that would be just awful. Do you know how they would go about on a mass cull of an entire herd - I don't see how the distress of the other elephants watching, seeing what is happening (which happens in some slaughter houses) could be avoided - it is an abominable prospect.
Out of interest, about how many elephants are in a herd? If whole herds had to be culled would this not leave a problem of interbreeding in the remaining herds?
It is a terrible dilema as you say, a very emotive subject.
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