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[–] jenny_ball@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this image always terrifies me. humans are fully capable and willing to do this kind of thing, particularly before the age of modern photography and video.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I will say that there were indigenous American tribes that weren't much better in terms of how they treated bison. Some hunted them pretty sustainably, but the Blackfoot believed that if you didn't kill the whole herd, the rest of them would learn to be wary of humans. So they drove the whole herd off a cliff. They only harvested a small portion of that herd when they were done, which is why there are just massive piles of bones at the bases of those cliffs.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago

Oh man, then don't look up what happened to the people that used to hunt these things.