Meaningful

[poliphilo]

Rabbits are nature's fast food. Everything with a taste for meat- and big enough to take them on- treats them as prey. 95% of all kits never make adulthood. I learned that from Springwatch. Also on Springwatch I saw graphic footage of kits being killed by a magpie. A magpie, I ask you!

Call it the Great Chain of Being. Call it an Ecosystem.

All that energy- bubbling up from wherever it comes from - passing from life-form to life-form by way of predation. Sounds meaningful when you put it like that.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think much the same thing, but in rather more nebulous terms. I like the way you anchor it in physical science.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

My first two years in college I was actually a Life Science major.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I found science mystifying as a kid and couldn't see the point of it. Now I wish I knew more.