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Should we kill killer sharks? Why we need to protect the predators that hunt us – ABC News
When people are killed by sharks, there are often calls for them to be culled. But here’s why we need to keep the big apex predators alive, even though we might…
The instinct to kill the animals that prey on us has probably come in pretty handy in times past.
Especially when we lived at low population densities in hunter-gatherer and agrarian societies, surrounded by big populations of creatures like wolves, lions, and sabre-toothed tigers.
Today when someone is killed by a predator such as a shark, there are inevitably calls to kill the offending animal or cull the offending species.
But here’s why those old rules don’t apply anymore, and why we need…
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