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> Where the hell are all the dead animals?
That’s an excellent point. And proof that mankind is only the third-smartest animal instead of, as is commonly-thought, the second.
This doesn’t surprise me one bit and I’ll tell you why....
Back in 1987 there was a 5-magnitude earthquake in Missouri, somewhere in the Ozarks I think. I was living in Chicago at the time; the day it happened, my wife’s parrot went freakin’ nuts for a few minutes, then I FELT the ground wobble underneath my feet.
Yes, animals DO have that sixth sense of danger...what DOES surprise me is that the damn scientists haven’t come to that conclusion!
I remember once I saw my cat doing a belly-crawl across the floor; ten seconds later a small earthquake struck. Another time I watched a duck flying like a bat out of hell at my picture window in a 40 mile per hour wind; he then did a nifty double reverse manuever and landed safely in the pond. These are dumb animals?
After the computer Deep Blue defeated Kasparov at chess, someone suggested that for the next test we set the building on fire and see which of the two could save his ass.
Basil (above) has a point; if brains are meant to be survival organs then we don’t have a corner on the market vs. the other animals.
Remember in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy when the porpoises fled earth before its destruction? Their last message was “Goodbye and thanks for all the fish”.Posted by Oink
12/29/2004 at 10:24 AM
Hey you guys missed the point, besides animals being more highly attuned to survival, there is the number one of the rules of photojournalism you’ve missed…
Photo’s of dead people, especially woman and children, trump a dead critter any day no matter how slow the news that day…
Unless it’s a photo of an ”An American Stormtrooper” shooting of some kids ankle biter…
Just wait I’m sure there’s a pulitzer prise winning photo some kid crying over the rotting carcass of the families water buffalo coming…
Posted by Ric
12/29/2004 at 12:57 PM
