Comments on: Tiger Hunt

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 23:24:28 +0000

I am not a fan of hunting either. But the account is interesting.

By: Ayush

Ayush — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:04:01 +0000

while i have nothing in support of hunting, i imagine his accounts from those times would be interesting, CP

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 01:01:26 +0000

I agree, that sitting atop a wooden box and needing to be in close contact with the tiger to combat him is a skill. Unlike modern day trophy hunters that can shoot to kill from a distance without fear of their life. That is not a skill.

I would need to read the book ‘Sport in Many Lands’ to establish if Levison was protecting people or just enjoying the hunt.

Either way I feel for the elephant

As mentioned in a previous comment, my next post is about war elephants

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:42:38 +0000

Well… the tiger was being hunted. It could stand its ground or flee. The tigers reaction was instinctive to the situation it found itself in.

I am not a fan of game hunters either and agree with you that the only excuse for hunting is to provide food.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:34:48 +0000

Elephants are also on the endangered list

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:32:22 +0000

We had a great mini trip I am a bit slow in posting about the places we visited.
House decorating and moving of furniture has got in the way

You would enjoy the museum. A post on the ‘War Elephant’ is coming up next when I can compose my thoughts to write it

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:28:21 +0000

I agree that nowadays most people know better. But as you say, some human beings still feel the need to do this.

The museum also had a display on more recent gun and knife crime and those that had been affected by it. This display disturbed more than any other exhibits and themes in the museum.

By: Amfortas

Amfortas — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:21:17 +0000

Sitting in a wooden box atop a swaying elephant is what makes it a dangerous ’sport’. The actual hunting wasn’t the ’sport’ bit. That was an essential, like plumbing or shingling your roof. OK. Perhaps not quite like plumbing and shingling. But the tigers used to kill people. In a really grusome way. Small children too. And old ladies. So tackling that menace required chaps willing to risk being lobbed off the back of an elephant. It would have been less fun just walking.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:20:37 +0000

Nowadays most people have moved on with their thoughts and do not like the hunting of animals for sport. They think the practice is barbaric.

By: ....peter

....peter — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 21:29:57 +0000

this is a superb sculpture of a very dramatic scene Cherie… i would not believe that a tiger would attack an elephant…
i am not a fan of big game hunters… i prefer hunters who bring their prey home to eat…
we have a lot of that in Canada….peter:)