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I'm too lazy to look up the reference, but a similar thing has been happening with big horn sheep. Their horns are getting smaller as (legal) hunters have prefe
by goodcanadian 10y ago
I'm too lazy to look up the reference, but a similar thing has been happening with big horn sheep. Their horns are getting smaller as (legal) hunters have preferentially killed the rams with the largest horns.
EDIT: Here are a couple of links:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bighorn-sheep-shrinking-due-to-hunters-study-suggests-1.2459623 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bighorn-sheep-shrinking-du...
https://thegatewayonline.ca/2016/01/alberta-bighorn-sheep-horns-slowly-shrinking/ https://thegatewayonline.ca/2016/01/alberta-bighorn-sheep-ho...