The videos are only a couple of minutes long. But there’s drama aplenty! A single hunter tries to grab and pull the pail, but oh no! The bear is fighting and trying to escape. Three other rescuers show up. By now the deer is frantic, eyes rolling, legs flailing.
Somebody arrives with a saw/tin snips/knife and begins trying to cut through the prison. The animal may die of pure fear by this time.
Finally, two of the rescue team hold the animal still. The sawing/cutting continues until…AT LAST! The animal is free and runs off into the woods. The bear doesn’t stop and wave. The deer never looks back. This is not a Disney movie.
Why do we find these stories so mesmerizing? And, by the way, who’s filming all these rescues? Or was it all a set up? Did somebody entrap the bear ( for instance) with honey in the pail? (Wasn’t that a Winnie the Pooh story plot?)
Only 2% of animal life on this planet is “wild.” I don’t know why that feels relevant here. Maybe you can figure it out.
I stopped at a red light intersection last week. Utility wires crisscrossed overhead and when I looked up, a mother squirrel was running down one section of wire. Two adorable baby squirrels were following several feet behind her.
Mom came to a wire junction and turned 90 degrees and continued on toward the trees but when babies got to the junction, they came to full-on stop. They didn’t seem to know what to do. Or maybe they suddenly got scared.
By now, mom was a distance down the wire. Then she stopped and turned around. I couldn’t hear from inside the car if she made any noise nor did I notice any other signal. But she certainly waited for the babies.
Sure enough, they figured out how to make the turn and came scampering across the wire toward her.
The light turned green. When I looked in the rear view mirror, the three squirrels were nearly across the wires to the trees.
I didn’t video anything.
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My new favorite word: senesce….I am deteriorating….elegantly.
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| Our barn, 2012 |
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| The barn, summer, 2021 |
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