I just can't help admiring...

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This one....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8583041/John-Kingsley-Heath.html

I just can't. I apologise.

 

[Aperitif]

Pretty gruesome reading, Martin!
I have played cricket at Monkton Coombe School - a beautiful place... tigers roaming the fields, zebras wandering in front of the sightscreen...

 

[asterix]

It sounds great.. .. other than the shooting things bits.

In 1990 he was asked to return to Africa, where he was appointed chief park warden of the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda; he later became assistant director of national parks, staying for six years. He continued to lead safaris into his 80s, accompanied by his wife and in later years by his son Nigel, but their quarry on these occasions were photographs not trophies. Meanwhile, at home in Cornwall he planted his farm with thousands of trees to promote the natural wildlife around him.

 

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The most lethal animal that he encountered at this, or any time, was the hippopotamus; indeed a fellow district officer was lucky to survive being bitten in the buttocks after straying between a mother and her calf. "He made a full recovery," noted Kingsley-Heath, "but I am told he walked like a sailor thereafter."

I just love this.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Jim Corbett's book, The Man-Eaters of Kumaon, is worth a read if you can hunt down a copy. Boys Own type stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Corbett_(hunter)

 

[Gromit]

Especially when he has been, shot stuffed and mounted on a plinth.

 

[Gromit]

The plant hunters were so much better at least the didn't play a hand in making most of our big game come close to extinction.

 

[rich p]

I shot a male and a female monkey some years ago and took them to the taxidermists. He asked if I'd like them mounted but I thought just holding hands would be better.

 

[Dayvo]

They don't make 'em like that anymore!

And nor like this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4231516/Sir-Dai-Llewellyn.html

on the same obituary page!