"must eat flesh or die; primitive man may be in the same state, whether he be or ; what about the sportsman? The man who owns a , or partridge manor has a moral right to take a share of the natural increase of the animals on his ground if he uses decent methods."
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Frank Fraser Darling
(23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. He gives his name to the .
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