Re: Cardinals Fighting to the Death
- From: Lanny Chambers <lanny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:32:52 -0500
In article <1175032149.113392.78060@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"apass" <apass@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
He was crippled after being choked and bitten
around the neck.
Now you know why banders hate catching cardinals. They bite right
through gloves.
I'm still disturbed by the incident. Territorial squabbles between
male passerines are common in the Spring. But I've never seen them
end so tragically. Usually, one of the birds cries "uncle" and flies
off in retreat. Apparently, there are murderers among even the small,
innocent looking songbirds we strive to protect.
Pardon me, but that's just sentimentalist hogwash. The weaker bird was
too stupid to give up and fly off, so the stronger had no choice. That's
not murder, it's just natural selection at work, preventing a defective
individual from propagating its faulty genes. In evolution, underdogs,
weaklings, and misfits are supposed to lose.
If you want to attract nature close enough to watch, you should be
prepared to watch all of it. Nature is not the Disney Channel.
"Innocent" only applies to humans who make ethical choices, not to
animals merely obeying their instincts. When their instincts aren't
appropriate, they die rather than dilute the strengths of their species
(and end up like humans). It's how the game works.
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