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romanticising the wild
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something came over me as i was looking at these pictures over at cuteoverload.com.
i don’t know how exactly to describe it, but it was kind of like tenderness, warmth, and cynicism all mixed together.
looking those pictures of the interaction between two species of animals who are in a human-defined predator-prey relationship somehow makes me feel that wild animals, and nature as a whole, have been grossly misunderstood by a lot of us.
yes, wild they may be, and brutal they may be, but as far as i know, animals do not frivolously or recklessly kill other animals for reasons other than to feed or defend themselves. or maybe they do, i don’t know. but i haven’t yet heard of any species of animal that goes on a killing spree for either its own amusement or for some other kind of warped reason that only they themselves can comprehend.
maybe i am romanticising or even anthropomorphising the wild… but sometimes it does seem that nature and her wild animals can be more humane than us humans.
