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To: Zhangliqun
Only rarely do they ever get to relax or even "play".

Nonsense. The ravens here play hard every day. Every day they fly into town like drunks heading out to their favorite bar. Town is a huge playground for them, endless entertainment. They aren't alone. The world is a huge smorgasbord for all the animals. Eat, sleep, procreate, reflect on this paradise. Just like us, except we are more violent.

161 posted on 03/08/2005 5:13:37 PM PST by RightWhale (Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
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To: RightWhale
Nonsense. The ravens here play hard every day. Every day they fly into town like drunks heading out to their favorite bar. Town is a huge playground for them, endless entertainment. They aren't alone. The world is a huge smorgasbord for all the animals. Eat, sleep, procreate, reflect on this paradise. Just like us, except we are more violent.

You've got to be kidding me. What paradise? Nature has nothing to offer but violent, cruel indifference. Even if these ravens are being constantly "entertained" (and to the extent they are, it's by violent humans dropping bread or food on the ground for them to gorge on) and have no natural enemies, the elements (wind, rain, lightning, cold) are very unforgiving.

Every show about animals that isn't about domesticated pets should have the same title: "How Animals Cruelly Disembowel and Eat Each Other Alive". Robins plucking helpless worms off the sidewalk, a pack of wolves running some poor stray critter to death and then ripping it open. Sharks, tigers, pirahna, hawks, eagles, etc. Even animals that aren't carnivores eat plants that can't even fight back or run away.

I stand by my statement that animals spend most of their waking hours in some form of discomfort struggling to survive.

298 posted on 03/09/2005 11:21:25 AM PST by Zhangliqun (What are intellectuals for but to complexify the obvious?)
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