{"id":5673,"date":"2014-06-16T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2014-06-16T18:13:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T01:13:36","slug":"people-suck-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/16\/people-suck-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"People Suck Ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/kenya\/10899944\/Poachers-kill-one-of-the-worlds-largest-elephants-in-Kenya.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Telegraph UK<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"color: #1e1e1e;\">Poachers kill one of the world&#8217;s largest elephants in Kenya<\/h1>\n<p style=\"color: #404040;\"><em>Poachers hack the face and tusks off Satao, one of Kenya&#8217;s most famous elephants, as conservationists warn elephant poaching &#8220;is at least 10 times the official figures\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"color: #282828;\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/02941\/ELEPHANT_2941888b.jpg\" alt=\"Satao, believed to have been the world's largest living elephant\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>Satao&#8217;s enormous tusks classed him among the largest elephants left alive in the world<\/em> Photo: RICHARD MOLLER\/TSAVO TRUST<\/p>\n<p><strong>By\u00a0Zoe Flood,\u00a0Nairobi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of Africa\u2019s last &#8216;great tuskers\u2019, elephants with ivory weighing over 100lbs, has been poisoned to death by poachers in\u00a0<a style=\"color: #234b7b;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/kenya\"><strong>Kenya<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0after years of adapting his behaviour to hide himself from humans.<\/p>\n<p>The bull, named Satao and likely born in the late 1960s, succumbed to wounds from poison darts in a remote corner of Tsavo National Park where he had migrated to find fresh water after recent storms.<\/p>\n<p>His carcass yesterday lay with its face and great tusks hacked off, four legs splayed where he fell with his last breath, left only for the vultures and the scavengers.<\/p>\n<p>Conservationists told how he moved from bush to bush always keeping his ivory hidden amongst the foliage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m convinced he did that to hide his tusks from humans, he had an awareness that they were a danger to him,\u201d said Mark Deeble, a British documentary filmmaker who has spent long periods of time filming Satao.<\/p>\n<p>The elephant\u2019s killing is the latest in a massive surge of poaching of the mammals for their ivory across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Moller, of The Tsavo Trust, who had been monitoring Satao for several months confirmed that the elephant found dead on May 30 was indeed Satao, whom he called \u201can icon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no doubt that Satao is dead, killed by an ivory poacher\u2019s poisoned arrow to feed the seemingly insatiable demand for ivory in far off countries,\u201d Mr Moller said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA great life lost so that someone far away can have a trinket on their mantelpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/africaandindianocean\/kenya\/10899944\/Poachers-kill-one-of-the-worlds-largest-elephants-in-Kenya.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph UK Poachers kill one of the world&#8217;s largest elephants in Kenya Poachers hack the face and tusks off Satao, one of Kenya&#8217;s most famous elephants, as conservationists warn elephant poaching &#8220;is at least 10 times the official figures\u201d Satao&#8217;s enormous tusks classed him among the largest elephants left alive in the world 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