1. And we are not laughing at his little jokes, nor should he be chuckling about Mutombo going back to Africa to hunt lions. 2. For five months they hunted rogue lions that were poaching cattle, leopards, a wounded rhino, birds and other game. 3. Hunting lions remains illegal in California. 4. It is now illegal for Masai to hunt lions, which had been a rite of passage for young men. 5. Lions are hunted, battles fought, all with a realism tempered only by conventional distortions of perspective. 6. Lions can be hunted with dogs, but that method is far less effective than traps. 7. SportsChannel commentator Tom Heinsohn apologized on air for suggesting that Atlanta Hawks center Dikembe Mutombo would go back to Africa for the weekend and hunt lions. 8. That lion was hunted and killed five days later. 9. When lions were hunted for sport, the population tended to be younger. |