Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men “frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.”
Unfortunately, this unusual tameness was used to their disadvantage: as Darwin notes, men “frequently killed them in the evening, by holding out a piece of meat in one hand, and in the other a knife ready to stick them.”
I believe before the Junta, the previous goverments in Argentina were negociating something very similar to the Panama Canal Handover/Torrijos-Carter Treaties, with the British granting the islands back to Argentina, since Argentina was already supplying the Island with food, oil and energy.