CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow August 1, 2015 19:12:00
Do as, you know, such an important figure, not only for a study as oxford's been studying, but what does the death of cecil do in terms of genetically to the future of that pride now being gone? >> the death of cecil has a lot of impact. and as you say, one animal dying, but it's also trophy hunting in general takes out the biggest and the strongest and the most beautiful. so basically what that means is by all of these cubs dying and by cecil dying, it's weakened the gene pool. systematically, these hunters are pulling out the biggest and the strongest, which means the weaker lions would not ...
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