24 Shoot to Kill Why We Hunt

CHAPTER 1 Hunting WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF HUNTING? Meet Wayne Douglas. He is a hunter. He hunts deer every year during hunting season. After he kills deer, he cleans them. He and his family eat the deer meat all year. Maybe you think of someone like Wayne when you think of hunting. Paul and Sue Rogers are on vacation in Costa Rica. They catch a lot of fish, but they don't eat them. For them, fishing is fun. They fish for sport. Some people hunt animals for money. They kill them and sell parts of their bodies. Other people hunt animals, but they don't kill them. They study the animals to help people or to help the animals. Jeff Corwin, for example, captures animals and studies them. He gets information about them. Later, he uses this information to help the animals. People hunt for food, but they also hunt for other reasons. They hunt for sport. They hunt for fun. They hunt for money. They hunt to help people. And sometimes they hunt animals to help the animals. People have many reasons to hunt. They also have many opinions about hunting.

第一章打猎当你想到打猎时，你会想到什么？ 这是韦恩·道格拉斯。他是一个猎人。 他每年在狩猎季节猎鹿。 他杀完鹿后，他会清洗它们。 他和他的家人一年到头都吃鹿肉。 也许你一想到打猎就会想到韦恩这样的人。 保罗和苏罗杰斯在哥斯达黎加度假。 他们抓了很多鱼，但他们不吃鱼。 对他们来说，钓鱼很有趣。他们钓鱼是为了娱乐。 有些人捕猎动物是为了赚钱。 他们杀死他们，并出售他们身体的一部分。 其他人捕猎动物，但他们不杀死它们。 他们研究动物是为了帮助人类还是帮助动物。 例如，杰夫·考文（Jeff Corwin）捕捉动物并进行研究。 他得到了他们的信息。 后来，他利用这些信息来帮助动物。 人们打猎是为了食物，但也有其他的原因。 他们打猎是为了娱乐。他们打猎是为了好玩。 他们寻找金钱。他们打猎是为了帮助别人。 有时他们捕猎动物来帮助动物。 人们有很多打猎的理由。 他们对狩猎也有很多看法。

CHAPTER 2 Helping People An actress walks into a movie theater. She's wearing a fox coat. An angry person puts red paint on her. The person thinks it is wrong to wear fur. Many others have the same feelings. In the past, people used every part of an animal. We ate the meat and used the fur for clothes. Today, people use animal fur for coats, but we often do not use all of the animal. We capture and kill some wild animals only for their fur. Sometimes, we capture wild animals, but we do not kill them. We keep them as pets. Most people think that birds and cats are good pets. How about monkeys and tigers? Do they make good pets? Some people buy wild animals in pet stores. Other people get them from the wild, and they take them home. Sometimes, these animals are endangered. It is illegal in many places to have a wild animal for a pet. Why? First, because it is dangerous. Wild animals can attack people. Also, it is not good for the animal. Many wild animals get sick out of the wild.

一个女演员走进一家电影院。 她穿着一件狐皮大衣。一个愤怒的人把红漆涂在她身上。 这个人认为穿皮草是不对的。 其他许多人也有同样的感受。 在过去，人们利用动物的每一部分。 我们吃肉，用毛皮做衣服。 今天，人们用动物的皮毛做外套，但我们通常不会使用所有的动物。 我们捕获和杀死一些野生动物只是为了它们的皮毛。 有时，我们捕获野生动物，但我们不杀死它们。 我们把它们当宠物养。大多数人认为鸟和猫是很好的宠物。 猴子和老虎怎么样？ 它们是好宠物吗？有些人在宠物店买野生动物。 其他人从野外捕获它们，然后把它们带回家。 有时，这些动物濒临灭绝。 在许多地方，养野生动物做宠物是违法的。 为什么?首先，因为它很危险。 野生动物会攻击人。 而且，这对动物也不好。 许多野生动物在野外会生病。

People also capture wild animals to use them for medical research. One example is snakes. Researchers capture snakes and take their venom. Then they use the venom to make a drug. Doctors give this drug to people when a snake bites them. Years ago, many people died from snakebites. In the US today, only about five people die from snakebites every year. Medical research helped make snakebites less dangerous. Medical research uses animals, and those animals sometimes get sick or die. For this reason, some people think medical research is cruel. Today, researchers mostly use mice over 25,000,000 (25 million) mice every year! Hunting helps people in other ways. A farmer in Texas has a problem: wild hogs. These animals are killing his farm animals. They are eating his food. He is worried they are going to attack his children. He calls Jerry Campbell. Jerry and his family are hog hunters. They hunt wild hogs to protect people. Hunters sometimes kill dangerous animals when they get too close to people. In Texas, there are about one million wild hogs. They live very close to people. Farmers lose about $50 million a year because of the hogs. Hunters kill the hogs to help the farmers.

人们还捕获野生动物用于医学研究。 蛇就是一个例子。研究人员捕捉蛇并提取它们的毒液。 然后他们用毒液制造一种药物。 当被蛇咬伤时，医生给人开这种药。 几年前，许多人死于蛇咬伤。 在今天的美国，每年只有大约五人死于蛇咬伤。 医学研究帮助降低了被蛇咬伤的危险。 医学研究使用动物，而这些动物有时会生病或死亡。 因此，有些人认为医学研究是残忍的。 今天，研究人员每年使用超过2500万只老鼠！狩猎在其他方面帮助人们。 德克萨斯州的一位农民遇到了一个问题：野猪。 这些动物正在杀死他的农场动物。 他们正在吃他的食物。他担心他们会袭击他的孩子。 他打电话给杰瑞·坎贝尔。杰瑞和他的家人是猎猪人。 他们猎杀野猪是为了保护人民。 猎人有时会在危险动物离人太近时杀死它们。 在德克萨斯州，大约有100万头野猪。 他们住得离人很近。 农民每年因为生猪损失约1亿美元。 猎人杀猪是为了帮助农民。

CHAPTER 3 Helping Animals DOES HUNTING HELP ANIMALS? Can hunting be good for animals? Yes, it can! Hunting can help animals in many ways. With no hunting, some groups of animals get too big. This is a problem for all of the animals in the group. Take deer, for example. In some places, there are too many deer. There is not enough food for all of the deer. They are hungry. Many deer die slowly and painfully. Others leave their homes to find food. They go into cities where cars hit and kill them. Hunters kill some of the deer to stop the number of animals from getting too big. Many people feel it is less cruel for the deer to die like this. Marcos and Carol are whale hunters. They capture a whale, but they don't kill it. They put a small computer on the whale. It records what the whale does. It shows where the whale goes. Marcos and Carol learn about whales from the information. Then they try to help other whales. Many people hunt animals to study them. They do not kill the animals. They capture them and record information about them. This helps people understand the problems of a group of animals. Later, people use this information to help the animals.

第三章帮助动物狩猎对动物有帮助吗？ 狩猎对动物有好处吗？ 是的，它可以！狩猎可以在很多方面帮助动物。 由于没有狩猎，一些动物群变得太大了。 这对所有动物来说都是一个问题。 以鹿为例。在一些地方，鹿太多了。 没有足够的食物喂饱所有的鹿。 他们饿了。许多鹿死得缓慢而痛苦。 其他的离开家去寻找食物。 他们进入城市，被汽车撞死。 猎人杀死了一些鹿，以阻止动物的数量变得太大。 很多人觉得鹿这样死去不那么残忍。 马科斯和卡罗尔是捕鲸者。 他们捕获鲸鱼，但不杀死它。 他们在鲸鱼身上放了一台小电脑。 它记录了鲸鱼的行为。 它显示了鲸鱼的去向。 马科斯和卡罗尔从信息中了解鲸鱼。 然后他们试图帮助其他鲸鱼。 许多人捕猎动物是为了研究它们。 他们不杀动物。 他们捕捉它们并记录有关它们的信息。 这有助于人们理解一群动物的问题。 后来，人们利用这些信息来帮助动物。

Other people capture animals to relocate them. Karen Parsons lives in New Jersey. One day, she saw a bear in her yard. She was worried. She didn't want it to attack her or her children. She called an animal control centre. They captured the bear and took it back to its home. People often relocate an animal when it leaves its home and goes into a city. People at an animal control center take the animal back to its home. If this is not possible, they take it to a zoo. This protects people and the animal. Sometimes people relocate groups of animals. This can help endangered animals. For example, the Florida panther was endangered. These panthers only lived in one part of Florida in the United States. There were only about 100 of them living in the wild. People found safe places for the panthers to live in other parts of Florida and Georgia. They captured some of the panthers and relocated them to these places. There are going to be about 250 panthers in each new place in a few years.

另一些人捕捉动物来重新安置它们。 凯伦·帕森斯住在新泽西。 一天，她看到一只熊在她的院子里。 她很担心。她不想让它攻击她和她的孩子。 她打电话给动物控制中心。 他们抓住了熊，把它带回了家。 当动物离开家进入城市时，人们通常会重新安置它们。 动物控制中心的工作人员把这只动物带回了它的家。 如果这是不可能的，他们把它带到动物园。 这保护了人和动物。 有时人们会重新安置成群的动物。 这可以帮助濒危动物。 例如，佛罗里达黑豹濒临灭绝。 这些黑豹只生活在美国佛罗里达州的一部分。 只有大约100只生活在野外。 人们在佛罗里达州和佐治亚州的其他地方为黑豹找到了安全的地方。 他们抓了一些黑豹，把它们安置在这些地方。 几年后，每个新地方都会有大约250只黑豹。

CHAPTER 4 Poaching POACHING IS A PROBLEM IN MANY COUNTRIES. In many places, there are some times of the year when it is OK for people to hunt wild animals and some times when it is illegal. Poaching is hunting and killing wild animals when it is illegal. For example, in the United States there is a deer season. This is the time of year when it is OK, or legal, to hunt deer. It is illegal to hunt deer at other times. This protects the deer, but it also helps hunters. For example, it is illegal to hunt deer when babies are with their mothers. If a hunter kills the mother, the baby dies, too. So next year, there aren't so many deer, and that's not good for hunters. Poachers often kill endangered animals. Why? For money. Some people pay a lot of money for endangered animals— for example, $20,000 for the horns of a bighorn sheep. If poaching doesn't stop, some animals are going to disappear. In the early 1800s, there were over 1,500,000 bighorn sheep in North America. Today, there are fewer than 70,000. Some people think that poachers are not hunters. Hunters kill animals for good reasons, but poachers do not.

偷猎在许多国家都是一个问题。 在许多地方，一年中有些时候人们可以捕猎野生动物，有些时候则是非法的。 偷猎是指非法狩猎和杀害野生动物。 例如，在美国有一个鹿的季节。 这是一年中可以或合法猎鹿的时候。 在其他时间猎鹿是违法的。 这保护了鹿，但也帮助了猎人。 例如，当幼鹿和母鹿在一起时，猎鹿是违法的。 如果猎人杀死了母亲，婴儿也会死亡。 所以明年，鹿的数量就没有那么多了，这对猎人来说不是好事。 偷猎者经常捕杀濒危动物。 为什么?要钱。有些人花很多钱买濒临灭绝的动物——例如，一只大角羊的角要花000美元。 如果偷猎不停止，一些动物将会消失。 在19世纪早期，北美有超过150万只大角羊。 如今，这一数字不到7万。 有些人认为偷猎者不是猎人。 猎人捕杀动物是有正当理由的，而偷猎者则不然。