I think that this will be more common in these areas where man and animals meet.

I hope the old man was given the hide, tanned and finished to his liking AND the meat for his trouble.
Those should be battle scars for his grand kids to see and steaks on the grill!
If it was done by our state, the gt would toss it over my hill while I'm not home...polute my ground water and make it unbreathable.

The animals became food for man and fear set in once they were re-established after the great worldwide flood.

This is the.command that God laid down after sparing mankind, made in His image.

Genesis 9:5
“And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.”

King James Version