Nature Is Unsentimental and Ruthless (at Times)
No ceremony, no "decent" burial for this poor lizard...
One or more of our outdoor cats killed a lizard a day or two ago. A horde of ants came along, and with efficiency and dispatch ate all the flesh off its bones. Now all that's left is the spinal column and skull.
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One or more of our outdoor cats killed a lizard a day or two ago. A horde of ants came along, and with efficiency and dispatch ate all the flesh off its bones. Now all that's left is the spinal column and skull.
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Seriously, this made me think about nature and where human beings fit into nature, which we are part of (although we alienate ourselves from nature in so many ways) yet in certain ways we are so different compared to other species in our response to death and brutality because of our high level of consciousness and our ability to experience a broad range of emotions (neither of which, of course, are exclusive to our species). Although we engage in brutalities, cruelties and injustices toward members of our own species and other species that no other species would do in spite of our innate capability for ethics.
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