Day Of The Animals

[brentspeak]

Do you remember that 1970's made-for-TV movie? The world's animals go crazy and attack humans the planet over because the ozone layer is too depleted to prevent insanity-causing UV rays of a certain wavelength from affecting animals' brains.

While it wasn't very good science -- UV rays beyond a certain wavelength are no longer UV rays, anyway -- and I don't expect the movie's premise to be plausible in any way, shape, or form, can anyone blame animals if they turn on humans, simply because they're so pi$$ed off that we've made life so miserable for them and their surroundings?

That's a morbid recurring joke some of my friends discuss every now and then as a possible movie: the animals of the world, tired of being clubbed to death (baby seals), experimented upon (lab animals), fished to extinction (whales, dolphins, even sharks), their surroundings destroyed (forest fires leaving woodland animals bereft of home and hearth), bred like polymers in a chemical factory (puppy mills), and hunted down (self-explanatory) band together to rid the planet of humans forever.

Ok, back to reality. But, in a fantasy world, could anyone really blame animals for staging a rebellion?

Brentspeak
(Not some crazy PETA member, but nevertheless angry about today's news report that weather conditions in Spain are so whacked-out that bears are not in hibernation. ):grr:

[havocmom]

1. We keep sucking up habitat. They finally have been pushing back

And it is not the UVs making them (and us) bonkers... it's all the electro-magnetic fields from our noisy equipment and those #$*#&$@!*_)#@ cell phones doing that ;)

[Uncle Joe]

2. Well, if you believe the theory of evolution and I do,

some of these animals are going to *eventually figure out that basically humans suck, and if they are going to survive they will have to eat us. If I don't get enough sleep, I'm usually irritable, I imagine these bears will be pissed.


*Subject to all life as we know it not coming to an end first.

[redacted]

3. The Pacific Coast is showing signs of trouble

First, this blog is funny and right on your point:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/environment/archives/109239.asp

But the sad part is at the end of the humorous post, sea birds are dying and sea lions are biting.

Heck they found a very hungry seal lion trying to cross the freeway in Petaluma, CA a while back -- that's 20 miles inland.

[brentspeak]

6. Are the sea lions native to that area?

[redacted]

8. Oh yes they are native to that area -- and there are quite a few.

We just don't usually find them THAT far inland.

The population of sea lions is why we have the "red triangle" here. The greatest population of great white sharks in the world.

[InvisibleTouch]

4. I wouldn't blame them one bit. n/t

[brentspeak]

5. .

[Virginia Dare]

7. Relatively speaking humans have been here the shortest time...

and I'm betting on those species that have been here the longest in terms of survival.

[shadowknows69]

9. Read "Doctor Rat"

<http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Rat-William-Kotzwinkle/dp/1569247145/sr=8-1/qid=1166910754/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1041005-9575137?ie=UTF8&s=books>

[Holly_Hobby]

10. Something is fighting humans

Bird flu, mad cow, West Nile virus from mosquitoes...