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.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I can't remember now. Two, three weeks ago? In retrospect it all runs together.

Springwatch can be gritty. If predation happens while the cameras are rolling they don't turn them off. There was a particularly disgusting episode this year in which we watched bitterns cannibalising a dead chick.