[baddog 219]

Thank God Obama wasn't Spanish...

[Dr. Thorne]

Must be a Spanish crocodile.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Does elephant taste just like chicken?

[allmendream]

And many many years later Hannibal Barca crossed the Alps with both Spaniards AND Elephants.

[Wings-n-Wind]

You can do many things "once"....
... AND ONLY ONCE---

Just sayin'

[KarlInOhio]

Spaniards once ate elephant meat

That nearby Tunisian restaurant had delivery?

[wxgesr]

“One bite at a time!”

[central_va]

pigs and elephants are on the same evolutionary branch, maybe it tastes like pork?

[GeronL]

Just once??

/sarc

[Calusa]

King Juan Carlos of Spain is no stranger to controversial hunting. Six years ago, it was asserted that the 74-year-old shot a drunken Russian bear that had been lured with honey and vodka. Officials dismissed the allegations as ridiculous. The Spanish media have just had another field day though, after they learned he’d broken his hip hunting in Botswana recently.

The King also shot and killed his brother in an accident when he was a teenager. And just last week, his 13-year-old grandson, Froilán Marichalar, shot himself in the foot while hunting in Spain – media claimed it was illegal for Marichalar to have been using the gun he had shot himself with.

The monarch’s fall in Botswana, which left him with a broken right hip, was made worse after a photograph of the king standing proudly in front of a dead elephant emerged.

Spanish media took the latest news about their king very seriously, and lambasted his actions while his country copes with austerity measures and the grip of the Eurozone crisis.

The photograph, which had actually been taken on a previous trip, was from the website of Botswana-based Rann Safaris, but it had been removed by Sunday.

It’s alleged the king would have forked out about $15 000 for the hunt.

[TXnMA]

Notwithstanding all the dumb@$$ comments, this looks like a good GGG article...

[gnarledmaw]

Ive never understood the resistance by researchers to accept that marrow was not only eaten but was actually likely a prized portion. It is easy to swallow and digest so would have been of particular value to the youngest/oldest in any group and those who were ill or injured. It would keep longer than the meat as it comes in its own container. Which makes me wonder, how often are there long bones missing from the remains suggesting that those bones could have been hauled off and processed elsewhere at a later time?

Even the percussion mark arguement doesnt stand up well since we know that boiling using cooking stones was a relatively early technology and the bones themselves dont need to be actually split, just broken in some spot for good results. There are also techniques that could be used to open bones that are far easier than bashing down the length that would not leave the marks it sound like they are expecting.

I know that when I butcher/have an animal butchered I make sure I get all the marrow because I know how good marrow dumplings can be and make them as often as I can. I doubt that our forbears would have bypassed such an opportunity even if they could support themselves otherwise.

[mbarker12474]

Is there a Mitt Romney angle to this story?