Paul Shepherd has written about the window in childhood development where we need to learn about wild animals. Nowadays kids often miss this opportunity. Stuffed animals, video games, and cartoons are substituted for the mystery and discovery of nature and wildlife. Basically many people aren't getting the exposure to wild animals that they need, resulting in ignorance and mental maladjustment.

Also, biological education seems to stress molecular and cellular biology, practically ignoring ecology and animal behavior. If people understood animals better, then they would more strongly support animal rights. Right now powerful economic interests profit greatly from the wholesale abuse of animals, and they need to keep us ignorant about their behavior, intelligence, and emotions.

Worse, the media seem to delight in negative coverage of wildlife. There is heavy emphasis on any person who suffers the slightest inconvenience from a wild animal, whether hantavirus or cougar attack or snakebite or West Nile. When a stingray kills one animal lover, the coverage never stops. Maybe his fate was a little ironic. What about the hundreds of chemical company executives who have been killed by cancer? That's ironic too.

Wow, that's crazy people are surprise dprimates can open things. I study chimps and they can learn sign language, which is pretty amazing! They can even teach it t each other. Chimps in the wild make tools and organize hunting parties. People are also often amazed that primates have emotions.

Im not sure how stupid i am but i like the basic observation that animals take getting wet real serious. They are not equipped with hands to dry off their blind spots as well I think. In cold wet areas i would guess the average thing can shake it off but are going to have to evolve and preservere by finding a dry spot to get dry and get back to it.

People are eaten by the devil and thus lack energy. The voladero does not attack animals. Animals have personal power. Adam is concerned with himself with the little energy left till death. 6 000 000 deaths & only 144 000 survivors. Adam is an extinct specie.