We engineered our wild relatives, the aurochs, to produce cattle in Europe, Asia, and the Sahara Desert over 10,000 years ago. Unlike Frankenstein’s monster, which could not find a place in human society, cows roamed societies around the world and felt at home to most extents they encountered. Rosa Fichek, an anthropologist at the University of Puerto Rico who studies wild cattle, says wild cattle generally find their place. Christopher Columbus brought them on his second voyage to the Caribbean in 1493. And they bred like the scum of the wildlife world. “[Cattle are] It’s never under the full control of a human project,” she says. They “do not take orders like military men…they have their own livestock schemes.”
The bigger question is why are we so nervous about losing cattle? In terms of numbers, they are a successful species. He has just over one cow or bull for every eight people in the world. We like cows and bulls better than dogs. If the estimates are correct, he has 1.5 billion cows and he has 700 million dogs in the world. Imagine if an apocalypse destroyed humans, all domestic animals would go wild.
i could say There is something written here about how seabirds, as opposed to cattle, are important to marine ecosystems and the health of the planet as a whole. They spread their droppings all over the ocean, where they grow plankton, coral reefs, and seagrass, and grow small fish that eat the plankton, which the larger fish eat, and so on. Between 1950 and 2010, about 230 million seabirds globally declined, a decline of about 70%.
But it might be better to end with a reminder of the beauty of the breeding plumage of seabirds like the Aleutian Tern. A white forehead, a black stripe running from a black beak to a black cap, gray-hued wings, a white rump and tail, and black feet. flashy? No, the breeding feathers are timeless and monochromatic, featuring the clean, classic lines of vintage Givenchy designs. Seabird Audrey Hepburn. Flying over the cotton grass, they are so beautiful, so elegant, so difficult to appreciate. Their dainty bodies aren’t much longer than a common ruler from beak to tail, but they’re more than twice as long when spread out, enough to propel them from their winter homes in Southeast Asia to Alaska and Siberia in the spring. there is a power
A good nesting experience of watching the eggs hatch and the chicks fledge while eating lots of fish will draw the Aleutian tern to the same spot again and again. Like a vacationing family being drawn back to a special island, place. Filled with so many good memories, they keep coming back again and again. It is called loyalty.
Humans understand home, hard work, and family. So for a moment, how does the Aleutian Tern feel after she flies 16,000 kilometers over the Pacific Ocean with her brethren, stops to feed, and finally finds a familiar place, a place called Chirikov? Let’s think about. They have plans to breed, build nests, and lay eggs. special place? Lawn cover is fine too. However, finding safe nesting sites is difficult. Huge creatures lurch around, and terns have memories of loss, crushed eggs, and kicked chicks. It’s sad, is not it.
This article was made possible in collaboration with the Environmental Journalism Foundation and the Association of Environmental Journalists and is published with the following contributions: earth island journal.
