Sad news: baby elephant has died.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by Beverly

Here I segue into a discussion about humans..... If humans are so smart, and if we're at the top of the evolutionary ladder, why are we inadvertantly killing so many other species, and damaging our planet by overpopulation and pollution? Is it because we have no natural predators? And why don't the same checks and balances that occur between lions and prey not apply to us? I guess if I think about this long enough, I may find my own answer.....

Not sure if this has been mentioned, but I think our check / balance is in the form of bacteria & viruses. These will be our downfall. (other than ourselves). Even after we think we have beaten a virus and thought it was extinct. Amazingly it turns up again... and with our global village it can circulate so fast we will probably not know what is hitting us when it does happen.