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Heron with an appetite
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Ahah Ray!
The challenger raises his head to the man from the mountain! Well Ray, I don't think you disagree with me, but just want to take me on
Here, where you are now! No further warning needed!
As do many other animals, such as Apes for example!
By which human culture's moral standards would killing all the fish by toxic waste be not immoral?
We are, to our own environments and to each other's civilian populations. Just look at the wars we make!
As I said, we need to re-calibrate people's brains about right and wrong, morality and immorality to cover the real value to humans of not destroying the thin fragile layer of life on our only current home, planet earth.
Anyway, back to the heron devouring the little rabbit, shocking as it might be, such truth might save us if we could think about the necessary dependence of life on life!
That is my take home message from that picture!
Asher
The challenger raises his head to the man from the mountain! Well Ray, I don't think you disagree with me, but just want to take me on
Ray West said:
Here, where you are now! No further warning needed!
Ray West said:
As do many other animals, such as Apes for example!
Ray West said:
By which human culture's moral standards would killing all the fish by toxic waste be not immoral?
Ray West said:
We are, to our own environments and to each other's civilian populations. Just look at the wars we make!
As I said, we need to re-calibrate people's brains about right and wrong, morality and immorality to cover the real value to humans of not destroying the thin fragile layer of life on our only current home, planet earth.
Anyway, back to the heron devouring the little rabbit, shocking as it might be, such truth might save us if we could think about the necessary dependence of life on life!
That is my take home message from that picture!
Asher
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Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I don't get it!
Asher
Asher
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
There is great risk for swallowing more than one can chew!
© 2007 BBC News Photographer "The python tried to swallow the alligator whole and then exploded"
"An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's swamps.
The Burmese python tried to swallow its fearsome rival whole but then exploded.
The remains of the two giant reptiles were found by astonished rangers in the Everglades National Park.
The rangers say the find suggests that non-native Burmese pythons might even challenge alligators' leading position in the food chain in the swamps.
Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species
Prof Frank Mazzotti
The python's remains were found with the victim's tail protruding from its burst midsection. The head of the python was missing." source.
Talk about diners regret!
Now where did the head go?
I wonder whether the dying 'gator's tail whipped it off and away into the swamp! Anyway, stupid alien Burmese Python, "Never fold over your alligator and please, make sure it's dead before gulping it down!
Oh, another thing, "shake, don't stir!"
Asher
"An unusual clash between a 6-foot (1.8m) alligator and a 13-foot (3.9m) python has left two of the deadliest predators dead in Florida's swamps.
The Burmese python tried to swallow its fearsome rival whole but then exploded.
The remains of the two giant reptiles were found by astonished rangers in the Everglades National Park.
The rangers say the find suggests that non-native Burmese pythons might even challenge alligators' leading position in the food chain in the swamps.
Clearly, if they can kill an alligator they can kill other species
Prof Frank Mazzotti
The python's remains were found with the victim's tail protruding from its burst midsection. The head of the python was missing." source.
Talk about diners regret!
Now where did the head go?
I wonder whether the dying 'gator's tail whipped it off and away into the swamp! Anyway, stupid alien Burmese Python, "Never fold over your alligator and please, make sure it's dead before gulping it down!
Oh, another thing, "shake, don't stir!"
Asher
Barry Johnston
New member
Is it any different...
Is a Bald Eagle or a King Fisher swooping on an unsuspecting fish in a pond any different to this ? The fish also struggles to free itself from the huge talons that pierce its body, only to get ripped apart by this carnivore's huge beak while slowly drowning in the air but still alive. At least the Heron drowns the bunny before swallowing it whole.
The only reason for the extreme reaction here is because some of us have had these cuddly garden destroyers in our back yards as kids, and we have been conditioned with bunny toys with big floppy ears and Easter rabbits and of course Bugs Bunny. The same cannot be said for the dear fish my friends, and I sincerely doubt whether your reaction would be the same, in fact when we see such an image of a great bald eagle with a fish we are in awe.
Barry.
Is a Bald Eagle or a King Fisher swooping on an unsuspecting fish in a pond any different to this ? The fish also struggles to free itself from the huge talons that pierce its body, only to get ripped apart by this carnivore's huge beak while slowly drowning in the air but still alive. At least the Heron drowns the bunny before swallowing it whole.
The only reason for the extreme reaction here is because some of us have had these cuddly garden destroyers in our back yards as kids, and we have been conditioned with bunny toys with big floppy ears and Easter rabbits and of course Bugs Bunny. The same cannot be said for the dear fish my friends, and I sincerely doubt whether your reaction would be the same, in fact when we see such an image of a great bald eagle with a fish we are in awe.
Barry.