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Before I invest into reading the paper - does it say why precisely the hunters wanted to record the breeding cycles? Is this NOT to target the animals at that time or is it because they thought they would be easier prey?

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> it seems far more likely that information pertinent to predicting their migratory movements and periods of aggregation, i.e. mating and birthing when they are predicably located in some number and relatively vulnerable, would be of greatest importance for survival

That's more or less the only relevant statement I found, but I didn't read the paper start to finish.

The latter. There was such abundance at the time that conservation probably never crossed a single mind.

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