{"id":385908,"date":"2018-11-21T04:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-mostly-men-trophy-hunt-a-biocultural-explanation\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T04:51:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T03:51:10","slug":"why-mostly-men-trophy-hunt-a-biocultural-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-mostly-men-trophy-hunt-a-biocultural-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Why (Mostly) Men Trophy Hunt: a Biocultural Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107289\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107289\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5214754294_0dee12f9b3_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5214754294_0dee12f9b3_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/5214754294_0dee12f9b3_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Robert Tadlock | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wolves do not stay anywhere for long. This is partly a function of their prey\u2019s movement, but it\u2019s also a function of being hunted for seven months of the year, at least in Montana, where residents can \u201charvest\u201d up to five wolves for a paltry $19 dollars. A quick online search reveals dozens of images and videos of (mostly) men posing with wolves they had killed. The majority of the hunters are wearing what researchers K. R. Child\u00a0and\u00a0C. T. Darimont call \u201cpleasure\u201d or \u201ckilling\u201d smiles. In their essay \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/10871209.2015.1046533?journalCode=uhdw20\">Hunting for Trophies: Online Hunting Photographs Reveal Achievement Satisfaction with Large and Dangerous Prey<\/a>,\u201d the authors note that hunters\u2019 smiles tend to be more pronounced when the prey is large and\/or dangerous, that is, as opposed to when they pose with smaller and presumably less dangerous animals of the same species.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a cursory glance of online images of wolf hunts (which is all I can stomach) supports this finding by showing all the creative ways that hunters display and accentuate the size of their trophies.\u00a0Some men carry the wolf across their shoulders. Others string up, lay out, or hold up the wolf to show its length, height, or mass.\u00a0Another pose motif shows the hunter, often with gun in hand, kneeling behind and standing up the wolf so that it appears to be alive.\u00a0 One hunter\u2014I will call him \u201cthe artist\u201d\u2014went so far as to prop up the wolf on a moss-covered rock.\u00a0 But the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/20\/why-mostly-men-trophy-hunt-a-biocultural-explanation\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Robert Tadlock | CC BY 2.0 Wolves do not stay anywhere for long. This is partly a function of their prey\u2019s movement, but it\u2019s also a function of being hunted for seven months of the year, at least in Montana, where residents can \u201charvest\u201d up to five wolves for a paltry $19 dollars. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}