This is not really from natural selection.
Rhinos have been killed by humans by the hundreds of thousands over the last 30 years.
There's nothing natural about that.
Rhinos have been killed by humans by the hundreds of thousands over the last 30 years.
There's nothing natural about that.
Anything that's incidental to changes in the animal's environment, including increased predation or habitat destruction, would still count as natural selection. That includes cases where the predator is a particularly vicious species of great ape.
What does natural mean then? It's not like they disappeared by some magical event or an asteroid falling on the face of the Earth.
In the case of poaching, poachers are not intentionally trying to change the phenotype of the animal. They want to collect the horns/head/etc. The selection itself is an emergent side effect and, I would say, the natural result of a highly effective predator being introduced into the environment.
Nope, that's not natural in my book.
It is worth noting that the word natural is itself not "natural", the word is a human invention used to separate our own activities from others.