A few years ago, when we went to Yellowstone, there was a buffalo calf on the side of the road, and no other buffalo around. I remember some tourist (typical upper class urban liberal) stopping her SUV and interfering with traffic, wanting to get a ranger because she was afraid the calf was going to die.
Of course it was going to die! This is how nature works!
My husband and I drove off, shaking our heads. Hubby was raised in Salt Lake City, but still understands about nature more than that scatterbrained nature-loving liberal.
It’s understandable that this how nature works, but it’s also regrettable that nothing could be done for the calf anyway.
Nature is brutal as hell. SUV Yuppies have their worlds framed by Walt Disney from childhood on.
I am always puzzled by people who decry zoos. (Properly cared for) zoo animals have basically won the lottery. No, they don’t have the romantic wild vistas to graze or hunt on.
I saw a leopard or a cheetah trying to hunt for her cubs, her jaw was so broken that it was freely and visibly swinging beneath her face. Starving to death with your children is what nature does. Dying of a hellishly-painful dental abscess. Being eaten alive.
Humanity wants to be merciful and that’s good, but it has lost it’s perspective.