There are a plethora of crows in my neighborhood, as with almost everywhere. I watch them hopping around on the road picking at the nights casualties. Squirrels that could not make the run from curb to curb or the family cat the was startled by the sound of a inhuman fart coming from the old man with indigestion.
They seem generally un-phased by the 2500+ pounds of steal hurtling at them at breakneck speeds, merely hop hop hopping out of their lines. It got me thinking, crows are some of the smartest birds in the world, and I think they have made the decision to live amongst the enemy, man. I see them as the protestants that live amounts the Catholics or the Muslims in Jewish territories. Although they are outnumbered, out gunned, and out squish factored they adapt and continue to thrive.
It seems crows adaptive qualities have ensured there continued survival. Until the day that the bald eagle gets over itself and loses it's pride it is sure to extinctive. Living in a human dominated planet means using the strongest force to buff you strength, without doing this you have ensured you will eventually be gone.
So I began thinking what will our world look like after such selection completes its course. Crows, pigeons and Squirrels. Seagulls, raccoons, and skunks.
This is not natural selection anymore, it has become human selection. We decide which animals grace our city streets. You don't see bears in downtown Vancouver, not because they could not adapt but because humans would never let that happen. No we push them into the projects. Small slices of habitat "protected" to ensure the continuance of the bear, wolf and tiger populations. These spans over populated and homes and dens becoming a resource that is in demand ending in violence.
The animal kingdom is quickly becoming like Gaza Strips. Small pieces of land completely surrounded by hostile forces. If the animals are to leave them and are deemed "dangerous" they will be arrested and pushed back in, or worse, killed if any anger at the current situation is displayed. I see a beautiful world where humans live within nature, not without it. Where humans and bears coexist, not because natural tendencies have been stifled but because understanding and love is the man objective. We can learn alot from what we have done to the animal kingdom, a now collapsed empire living of the feces of ours.
Let the animals in and in turn let them be truly free. And once that happens, maybe, just maybe, we will see the light and let our brothers come over the walls we build and embrace their people, culture, and diversity.
Once that happens there is no reason for war and strife. Just love.
2 comments:
There is a species of crow that has some rudimentary form of communication. Not sure where I heard that. Crows are amazing to me, if not a little frightening en masse.
And on the subject of peaceful and loving animal & human cohabitation, you could try by first moving into the wilds of northern B.C. and see how well you do.
Having lived specifically there for 19 years before moving to the city I would say I would fair well...
I have been 3 feet from a cougar, (close enough to smell it's breath as it let it "purr" rumble the forest.
I have been "stalked" by a 1300 pound Grizzly. And chraged by a bull moose.
Life in the wild is not easy but with common sense you can live quite peacefully.
They say wild means unpredictable. But let me tell you the behaviour of a 300 pound mountian lion is much more predictable than a phsyco with a M1 Carbine rifle.
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