At least the bear doesn't have a stupid, made-for-Disney name.

For the record, Cecil the lion was taken legally. After all the propaganda from animal rights activists, the Zimbabwe government determined that everything that Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer did was legal.

So then it charged his guide. Later, it charged a local farmer. Early this year, the country's highest court pointed out that it didn’t make logical sense that the guide and the farmer could be charged with permitting an illegal hunt if Palmer did nothing illegal. So forget those charges, too.

Palmer took Cecil with a bow, legally and ethically. His only mistakes were killing a lion that had a name and killing a lion that animal-rights propagandists were trying to make a name for themselves with.

Palmer is back in Minnesota, practicing dentistry again, and since it is August, probably practicing with his bow to get ready for fall hunting seasons.

It may be a while before Zimbabwe returns to normal. The “Cecil effect” has cost the country’s tourism economy millions of dollars and has put humans, lions and other animals in peril. Wealthy tourists like Palmer were both a boon to the country’s economy and also a profitable wildlife management tool.

We’ll have to see if there is a Cecil effect in Manitoba.

In case you missed it, Josh Bowmar of Ohio may be on his way to becoming the next Walter Palmer. Bowmar is a muscly personal trainer and former competitive javelin thrower, one of those Olympic sports that sometimes don’t seem relevant to the 21st century.

He’s also a hunter, so he traveled to Manitoba to hunt black bear — with a spear. Hunting bears with a spear is legal in Manitoba. It isn’t legal in many other places, including most of Canada and the United States. So far as I can tell, it’s legal to hunt deer with a spear in Alabama.

Spear hunting isn’t legal in Michigan. Except spears are legal to take certain fish and frogs.

Like Palmer, what Bowmar did wrong was managing his image. With help from his wife, Bowmar filmed his bear hunt and posted it to YouTube. His mistake is enjoying the challenge too much.

Bowhunters use primitive gear because they enjoy the challenge of using a weapon that requires the hunter to know his sport well enough to get within yards of his quarry. Yes, it feels different to take a deer with a well-placed arrow than it does to drop one with a scoped, bolt-action .30-06.

We don’t know how many misses he had, but we can understand why he’d get excited about taking a bear using a method that probably one in a million of us could match.

Modern bowhunting is only 70 or 80 years old. In the 1930s, an archer pursuing deer in Michigan’s woods was a one-in-a-million anachronism, too. It’s probably a good thing that there was no YouTube — or PETA — when Fred Bear and other pioneers were perfecting the sport and persuading state wildlife departments to set aside seasons for primitive weapons.

Bowmar probably isn’t going down in history as the Fred Bear of spear hunting. Manitoba is rewriting its regulations to make spears illegal. Everyone on the internet is saying bad things about Bowmar.

And they probably should.

Giggling over your kill in a YouTube video is the 2016 equivalent of driving home with a gore-streaked carcass tied to the roof of your car.

It makes us all look bad.
