tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1472915025072607124..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The First HourUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44915413357342387482014-06-20T14:23:13.391-07:002014-06-20T14:23:13.391-07:00This is what's called trophy hunting. An endem...This is what's called trophy hunting. An endemic Texas pastime. There are game parks where one may reduce the numbers of all sorts of exotic species, to save on the trouble and expense of the full safari.<br /><br />The illusion of life is key to the trophy-hunt photo.<br /><br />It's essential to demonstrate one's dwarf triumph over the victim by forcing its carcass into these unnatural poses that indicate ultimate submission without showing any of the inconvenient suffering. <br /><br />Inconvenient for the prey, that is.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60614399135279430692014-06-20T13:13:34.572-07:002014-06-20T13:13:34.572-07:00The hunters seem to lift the heads up as if it wer...The hunters seem to lift the heads up as if it were some half hearted attempt to give the illusion of life.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27959597835894964422014-06-19T09:46:02.546-07:002014-06-19T09:46:02.546-07:00Looking at these beautiful photos, I was expecting...Looking at these beautiful photos, I was expecting the hunter . . . Always a part of the scene. <br />Here, we have an overpopulation of deer. They are in my backyard as I write this. Across the road there's a man who feeds them and then shoots a few in the fall. I guess it's the thrill of the hunt . . . <br /><br />Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25930928097365681852014-06-19T09:04:26.632-07:002014-06-19T09:04:26.632-07:00The man who took the first ten photos here, Helmut...The man who took the first ten photos here, Helmut Karl Buechner (1919-1975), was a groundbreaking field researcher on the ecology of free-roaming terrestrial vertebrates. His research on the range ecology of the pronghorn antelope in the Trans-Pecos region in southwest Texas, resulting in a famous study, Life History, Ecology, and Range Use of the Pronghorn in Trans-Pecos Texas (1950), received the George Mercer award of the Ecological Society of America. He would later also study the territorial behavior of elk and deer of the Blue Mountains region of Washington; bighorn sheep (his The Bighorn Sheep in the United States, Its Past, Present, and Future, 1959, would become a standard work); African elephants; and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugandan_kob#mediaviewer/File:Uganda-Kob.jpgkob" rel="nofollow">Ugandan kob</a> (first observed by his wife Jimmie H. Buechner). Helmut Karl Buechner's study of Indian rhinoceros mating behavior at the National Zoological Park in 1972 led to the first successful live birth of this species in the Western Hemisphere in 1974.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com