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Aneirin -> RE: The human animal ? (12/8/2008 8:57:36 AM)
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I was at the National Aquarium last week watching and trying to photograph the fish in a huge room size tank. There was a sea turtle going around in circles, a couple of sharks swimming around in circles, in fact all the fish were swimming around in circles, around a centre rock pillar. Odd thing, the turtle and sharks were going clockwise and the other fish anticlockwise. Anyways, come kicking out time, we got talking with the marine biologist on duty and I could not help but say, ''Don't you think the fish in that tank are bored with their enviroment'', The answer was, from the biologist, '' oh, no, fish don't have the capacity to get bored'', Well, my answer to that was, what exactly does humankind know about the feelings of animals, it is so arrogant of us to assume we are of a higher intelligence.
I look at it this way, if I was a fish in that tank, I would be bored with my enviroment, knowing I can swim in any direction and come up against a barrier of glass, a prison, a zoo for fish.
I was'nt meaning to get confrontational, but the statement annoyed me, one thing I cannot abide, is arrogance from those who dedicate their lives to understanding and caring for animals. We as humans will never understand nature if look at everything else that lives as beneath us and our understanding, perhaps our highly inflated oppinion ofourselves.
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