[lit-ideas] Re: The Bear
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:55:48 -0400
So if Tristan loved Isolde because he drank a potion, was his not love?
What difference does it make if their gentleness is an adaptive advantage
or if it's something that came out of a meeting around a campfire? Who
knows where or how things evolved or originated? They're there, that's
all. The bears are gentle, and in a human-dominated world, their
gentleness fails them when faced with predators with the ferocity of
humans. Animals all over the world are major losers in a human-dominated
world, to wit 50,000 species a year. I'm not sure what your point is.
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/22/2006 12:25:12 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Bear
>
> Andy: The 12-gauge was what I meant that bears are always on
> the losing side of humans. . . . they're just too gentle to
> be afraid . . If the bear misread you, he'd be dead for no
> reason than because he happened to make your acquaintance.
>
> One of the articles on black bears you posted suggests that
> black bears evolved in a time of fiercer predators, that
> their nonconfrontational attitude (combined with their
> singular ability to climb trees) enabled them to avoid
> becoming food for other creatures. According to that
> article, it is their instinctive fear of confrontation,
> their survival strategy of run-and-climb,_that makes them
> (what you perceive as) gentle.
>
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