Thursday, February 25, 2010

Animals

This story has got me thinking, and means a rant for you all: wild animals

If you take a 3 tonne whale out of its habitat, and stick it in a glorified swimming pool, is it really surprising that eventually it is going to get really pissed off?? This is the 3rd "incident". It could very well just be playing - I mean, its a 3 tonne animal, playing with a much smaller mammal - strength and power are on its side. But it could very well be saying "fuck off and stop making me do tricks, I want to be freeeee!!"

And it reminds me how much I love wild animals. And because of this i often think I would like to work in a zoo to get to help them, and to educate people so that they give a shit. But then I remember that zoos also make me sad. Sure we get to see them, but I look at them and see how amazing they are, and how magnificent they would be in the wild. Others go as a form of entertainment, to watch animals perform and do tricks and to laugh at the funny things they do. Things we have taught them to do, or that they have learnt to do out of boredom and frustration.

There is a purpose to zoos - education, breeding programs, that sort of thing. But wild animals should be just that. And it is human's fault that they cant. Because humans have spent their lives killing animals, and destroying their homes, just so that we may have a place to live. How is that fair?

People go swimming and a shark attacks them, and then people get mad and the shark gets hunted down. Im sorry, but who actually lives in the water?? Im pretty sure the person has gone into the sharks territory first. Its not like the shark got out of the sea, bowled on up to their front door and then attacked them unprovoked. If someone breaks into your house, you act on the defensive right - call police or attack said person if its that serious. So why are animals not allowed to do that when we invade their homes?

I need to stop ranting cos the whole thing just makes me angry and my thoughts get very unstructured...

I would like to work with wild animals in a way that helps them. But then the very introduction of human interaction is really a negative impact on their environment as well. If animals can be bred, and raised, without too much cuddling and humanising, and then let into the wild, and not poached, and not have their environment destroyed by people, then they could stand a chance...

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