In a single year the unregulated Japanese hunt had killed almost half the local porpoise population.

Why hunt and kill your own kind?

The hunt for the remains of Che Guevara and other Cuban guerrillas killed 28 years ago during a failed insurgency in the Bolivian mountains began after a retired Bolivian general said last month that Guevara was buried in a mass grave by an airstrip in the Bolivian town of Vallegrande.

"Not hunt, just kill?"

In her editorials in the News-Press, Mrs. McCaw is a staunch defender of animal rights, arguing against whaling operations and a federally funded hunt to kill feral pigs on the Santa Barbara Channel Islands.

A hunt last year killed 300 black bears; there was no hunt in 2004, after a court battle.

A hunt in 2003 killed 328 bears, and 297 were killed in a hunt last year.

A hunt by thousands of villagers and police officers has killed only 10 wolves so far.

The hunt hadn't changed him, though apparently he'd drunk and killed well enough.