I happen to come across quite a few accounts and video of people caught out in the wilderness, or even the not so wilderness, and running into wild animals. Not just deer or wild turkey, or some animal that is docile for the most part. But animals such as Bear, Wolves, Buffalo, and Mountain Lions. In more extreme cases where people were out on safari Lions, Rhinos, Elephants and Jaguars. Even in the ocean against sharks there is drama that is a danger for humans. It made me think about the big joke that humans live atop of the food chain, and are lord and master over all animals. Not true at all.
The only thing that puts us at an advantage over animals is our ability to make something loud and deadly that enables humans to either defend themselves against an animal or kill it. Otherwise, without that power we are left trying to survive against opponents that are bigger, faster, can climb higher, smell more acutely, swim deeper, and are sometimes more cunning than we can imagine. The only thing that puts us at the top of the food chain is imagination, and ego. The ego one is a human trait that somehow fulfills a need for superiority and dominance. Animals in the wild have the instincts of survival and defense and feel the need to hunt when they are hungry. You are either a threat, or food to them, plain and simple. Put human beings out in the wild next to those primordial instincts and we are insignificant and most of us will fail miserably. We will be on the low link of the food chain just because of our physical weakness next to these primordial machines. If they want you either to kill you as food, or destroy you as a threat to them or their offspring, the only thing in a human beings favor is the ability to think 3 dimensionally and rationally in an effort of sheer outwitting basic instincts. It can be done, but most times by luck someone survives it. When we enter their ever shrinking world, and encounter them, it is us that are intruders, and us that have to make the adjustments. Not them.
I may be wrong, but the ability for human beings to kill, maim, and destroy ecosystems the way we do, does not make us a superior animal. Watching these beautiful animals in their daily struggles to survive within their world and take only what they need to eat, and live, and function without the lust and desire for dominance for the sake of dominance itself makes them in my opinion the the more respected animal. The ability a human being to take a gun out into the woods and hunt is due to our intellect and ability to build things that can assist us rather than our muscularity, or speed to physically overpower. Even the smaller animals that we can possibly physically overpower are almost impossible for someone to handle without getting ripped to shreds in the process, let alone catch them without some assistance of a contraption that we conjure up. We cannot take down an Elk by brute strength..But a powerful bear can. We cannot defend ourselves against a pack of hungry wolves..But a mighty Buffalo can. We have absolutely no shot at defending ourselves from a Crocodile in the rivers of Africa. But A Hippo is a Croc's worst nightmare, and the only thing they fear. We can't even capture a squirrel without a trap. But a Hawk can. Are you seeing the pattern? Humans are but an afterthought in the scheme of nature, and we are nothing. The only time we become something is when we attempt to control nature, or redirect it, or kill it unmercifully because of our own lust for destruction, and money.
Animal species have become extinct because of our insane ability to destroy, and fashion a need where there is none. Want Condos? We will ruin whole forests to appease our desire for mass housing. Want particular fashionable things to wear? We will eliminate a population of creatures so that we can look good. Too many incidents of encounters with animals in the woods? We will institute a hunting season just so we can control the population. Want a tender meat? We will create cruel conditions for animals to live and be farmed so that we can dine extravagantly. This is the M.O. of a top of the food chain species? This is what we do as human beings, and it in my opinion makes us low on the food chain, although you ask anyone where man is in the spectrum, and they will say at the top. To me, the top represents efficiency, and actions out of necessity. Not greed, and perceived actions of fun. Pit our seemingly most powerful individuals up against most animals in the wild, by themselves without the aid of guns, and you will more than likely see people that will not survive against the charge of a 30 mph bear, or a cunning 300 lb Tiger. That is not being at the top of the chain. That is being at the bottom.
Man will always destroy, try to curtail, control, and defeat nature, for his own needs and wants. Nature will seem to back down, or be controlled and or become defeated somehow. But it is an illusion, because human beings will destroy themselves in the end. And nature will survive in some other type of facet. Our link will forever be known as the "Chain of fools' section. Because that is what we are. Fools to think that we run nature, and control it. The only thing we can do is make things worse for ourselves in the end. And when we destroy everything that nature offered us because of our own lusts and devices, then nature will destroy us, and start new. Because that's how powerful nature is. We may think we are at the top of the food chain, and intellectual tower of nature..But take a walk on the wild side. You will see that we are not alone. In fact if you do we are in for a rude awakening...Or a permanent sleeping.
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