Dealing with nuisances, then and now

Not all piles of stones are cairns  and tombs. The image is of a 5,000 year old leopard trap, one of many built in Israel’s Negev Desert. In each case they were built near areas where sheep and goats were kept.

Today there are no more leopards left to hunt in the Negev desert. The last was seen one decade ago, and they are almost extinct in neighboring Jordan as well. On the other hand, there are leopards elsewhere. Luckily though the two Trump boys are heroically keeping them under control ….

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