National Collection of Heads and Horns at the Bronx Zoo

Above is the world class National Collection of Heads and Horns when it was housed at the Bronx Zoo. The tusks in the middle of the room are the one's mentioned in the news article in the below thread, that were once the possession of King Menilek of Abyssinia.

The hypocrisy and counterfeit process behind today's all squishy feel good political correctness is amazing and mind boggling that supposedly intelligent folks buy into it so readily. The sadness of an animal rights mind set was illustrated in the news story of the blind man and his seeing eye dog who were injured by a hit and run driver and the dog received thousands of get well wishes and the blind man received 4 from around the United States. The fact that I can not take my children to the Bronx Zoo and show them the National Collection of Head and Horns is not the ideal this great nation was built upon, because some folks didn't like it, or think it was right. Bushmans stuffed and mounted ornery ass "looks" at us from the Museum of Natural History in Chicago, because Lincoln Park zoo, who fed and housed him for years, sure can't have him hanging around in his current state, if they are going to count on those high dollar donations. The St. Louis Zoo, high dollar donations be damned, displays an honest, valid political correctness with Phil, who is "looking" at us at the zoo where he was housed and fed his whole life. If you want to look at Phil, look. If not, walk away or look the other direction. It is not your Private Idaho because you don't like it. Some folks do. A majority of the folks who objected to the National Collection of Heads and Horns, and other collections like it, are the same counterfeits who line up and get their tickets in advance for a King Tut type touring exhibit, and revel in the wonder of dead people!!!! They they will try to convince us they have culture and sophistication, as well as superior intelligence because the mounted animals made them ill, and for the good of us simple folk, they are doing away with them. They will try to alibi with, "it just isn't right, being surrounded by endangered species, to look at the poor things with their heads hanging on the wall. These same nitwits will drop gazillions of dollars to cruise to Egypt and stand with Egyptians, and revel in the wonder of dead Egyptians!!!!!! Give me a break!!!! Dumber yet was the zoo world feeling that it was okay to show the kiddies a snake shed or a hatched egg shell piece because it was "natural". Then they thought, "wait a minute, we can justify exhibiting and showing tiger pelts, rhino horns and skulls, turtle shell baskets and elephant foot bar stools as long as we point out that they were confiscated in the illegal wildlife market. Then we are educator's, yuck, yuck. " You morons, back when the National Collection of Head and Horns were gathered, there weren't many law's and regulation, so that makes them legal. I also promise you, the National Collection and other's like it did more to educate and illustrate the need for legal hunting/culling and the protection of endangered species then you and your beaver skin or muskrat skull will ever hope to do or accomplish.

I could never, ever mount or cut up an animal that I had know, worked with, or trained. I just couldn't. I would make sure it was disposed of properly so no one else could either. But I would give my right arm, if any were available for a GGW tiger skin(as long as it wasn't Rolls, Royce, or Rambo. I knew them. But a Prince would be great) or a Holtzmeir lion, a Clubb bear or a King Tusk umbrella stand leg. I could, and would mount someone else's or a zoo elephant, tiger, or Kudu horn if it was of signifigance, in a heartbeat, for people to marvel at a thousand years from now. I would also give any thing to have the opportunity to go on a legal, licensed tiger hunt and "bag" one of those magnificent creatures. If I could accomplish it with a bow, that would be a dream come true. That's my Private Idaho. I would hang it on my wall with pride instead of having it made into a rug, because I would want the dog to shit on it or the cat to piss on it. I would still continue to love, honor, and protect the endangered species of our world. "Our" world. Not "yours", and not "mine." Our world, and my children and grandchildrens world.