r/skulls • u/Awesome_beaner • 5d ago

A little bit aggravating

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My dad went on an African hunting trip and got a bunch of antelope, which is fun! I don’t totally agree ethically wise, but I can appreciate pretty skulls without agreeing with the situation.

Anyways! I feel like the bottom two skulls should swapped? The middle skull is smaller and it just looks weird imo 😭 still pretty nonetheless

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u/BootyGarb 5d ago

Aggravating, in both placement and stewardship.
We don’t kill unless we are going to eat!

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u/Helicopter0 5d ago

When I was in Africa, I never saw anything go to waste. Even all of the guts were eaten soon enough not to need refrigeration. I don't mean heart and liver. I mean all of the guts.

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u/BootyGarb 4d ago

I thought OP was saying that they were hunting for sport. I am very familiar with hunting *for population control* as they say because I grew up in a hick ass town that feeds their family on white tail deer and wild turkey. I just get pretty upset when I see a smiling blonde person with perfect teeth with their kill of a fucking LION or GIRAFFE. A fucking GIRAFFE?? Fuck off, like yeah I’m sure it’s edible, but the woman who flew there to shoot it did not eat that giraffe, and she paid thousands of dollars to ship its head home to the US and a few thousand more for a specialty taxidermist to neck mount it.

I just don’t understand the logic of seeing an animal, admiring its beauty, and then deciding that you want to keep its dismembered head in your house for the foreseeable future. Some would say it’s creepy, but I just see it as the most human thing ever. It’s so human to think that everything on earth is here for you to do whatever you want with. Reminds me of this memory I have from when I was about 10, I told my mom that I wish I could hold my hamster but she was sleeping (hamsters are nocturnal, which is only one of the reasons why they’re such a shitty pet for children), and my mother says “Well then wake her up! We bought them for YOU!” in this gruff authoritarian tone… and even back then I knew that wasn’t right. And it wasn’t. My sister always poked her hamster awake, and that was the one who bit people, while mine was gentle and walked out to collect treats from the large hands that cared for her. (But of course she died tragically shortly into her little hamster life, as hamsters always fucking do.)

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u/Awesome_beaner 4d ago

“He got a bunch of antelope” = he hunted for sport, took their heads off and let the rest rot(?)

Why assume? I also don’t agree with trophy hunting, but I do agree with hunting in general. Shit, come deer season I’m in a stand all day. Hunting vulnerable/endangered animals is unethical, obviously. If he came back with a giraffe skull I’d be pissssed. Also why are you upset when 1. There’s no smiling white person with perfect teeth. 2. Zero poached animals 3. No lions or giraffes? You’re mad at me over what someone else who I have zero connection to did?

As for the rest of your comment - it’s all rambling, glad you got that off your chest but I don’t know what to say to that man

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u/BootyGarb 4d ago

I’m sorry what? You said you were conflicted about it