"Be very, very quiet. Animals are hunting us"
In a stunning revelation, a UK journalist and provocateur has made a connection between animal attacks on humans and climate change (animals of all species are beginning to attack humans). The author, Will Storr of the Telegraph, uses wide ranging and credible figures to plot the increases in HAC (human animal conflict) and clearly demonstrates how these figures are a mirror image of the figures associated with the changing nature of the global climate. Naturally, places where climate change hits hardest are also the places where attacks have gone up the most. Stor emphasises this but telling us that there has been a surge in wolf attacks in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russia and France. In Australia, there has been a run of dingo killings, and crocodile violence is up. Some folks out there would take all this with a pinch of salt but I think Storr could be onto something.
Recall if you can your interactions with animals when you were a child. Did you ever go to a friend’s house and frolic with their new kitten? Did you ever run through the grass with a new puppy or try to teach a pet parrot to converse? Contrast this with your most recent experiences with animals. How often have you had a dog growl at you from behind a picket fence? How many bird owners have you met whose budgie has nipped them on the ear? If you have ever bathed a cat, how often are the times that you came away with long scratch marks. It seems that the animal kingdom is revolting against domestication.
Led by the wild elephants in Africa and India, who Storr assures us are much more violent toward humans than any other time in history, the beasts and the birds are making a stand. It’s their instincts you see. The world’s best scientists are telling us that the global climate is changing and pretty soon there won’t be many more habitable places on earth. Unlike us, the animals can sense this and have decided that it is a matter of us and them. Examples of this are rife. In Singapore, residents have been being terrorised by packs of macaques. In Cameroon, for the first time, gorillas have been throwing bits of tree at humans. They're using weapons against us. Even in Bombay, one of the most populated places on earth, petrified residents are being slaughtered in ever-increasing numbers by leopards. It is a sign that nature has declared war on human society and is reclaiming what humans have plundered.
Now that the animals are raging, I guess we are really only left with two options. Fight it or embrace it. Personally, I’m going to try to make peace with the sharp clawed, saber toothed, winged beasties and de-evolutionise into something more natural than what we humans seem to be now. Perhaps the animals, in all their instinctual wisdom, are actually showing us that the way to live more in harmony with the environment.
If we survive Storr’s animal revolution be sure to check back on this blog. AAnd don’t let me hear you saying you didn’t know it was coming. Consider yourselves warned.
Recall if you can your interactions with animals when you were a child. Did you ever go to a friend’s house and frolic with their new kitten? Did you ever run through the grass with a new puppy or try to teach a pet parrot to converse? Contrast this with your most recent experiences with animals. How often have you had a dog growl at you from behind a picket fence? How many bird owners have you met whose budgie has nipped them on the ear? If you have ever bathed a cat, how often are the times that you came away with long scratch marks. It seems that the animal kingdom is revolting against domestication.
Led by the wild elephants in Africa and India, who Storr assures us are much more violent toward humans than any other time in history, the beasts and the birds are making a stand. It’s their instincts you see. The world’s best scientists are telling us that the global climate is changing and pretty soon there won’t be many more habitable places on earth. Unlike us, the animals can sense this and have decided that it is a matter of us and them. Examples of this are rife. In Singapore, residents have been being terrorised by packs of macaques. In Cameroon, for the first time, gorillas have been throwing bits of tree at humans. They're using weapons against us. Even in Bombay, one of the most populated places on earth, petrified residents are being slaughtered in ever-increasing numbers by leopards. It is a sign that nature has declared war on human society and is reclaiming what humans have plundered.
Now that the animals are raging, I guess we are really only left with two options. Fight it or embrace it. Personally, I’m going to try to make peace with the sharp clawed, saber toothed, winged beasties and de-evolutionise into something more natural than what we humans seem to be now. Perhaps the animals, in all their instinctual wisdom, are actually showing us that the way to live more in harmony with the environment.
If we survive Storr’s animal revolution be sure to check back on this blog. AAnd don’t let me hear you saying you didn’t know it was coming. Consider yourselves warned.
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