Thinking Like a Mountain

Are we really the architects of our own destruction?When we are out and about are we really there for the good of the planet and others, or are we there to destroy the thing that supports our life. When we are hunting during the season its open, are we hunting for the enjoyment, or are we hunting for survival. The two are completely different, are we doing this to hang its head on our wall, or are we doing it to eat it. 

This article really showed how he had taken away a mother, a mother who happened to have babies nearby, and how he had helped along 'natural selection'. The author feels this guilt of killing an already dissolving species, and now he realizes that he probably killed those babies, with out intention of doing so, and now he has reduced the population by a few. The animal that was killed was a wolf, which means that there will probably be an over population of deer, and small animals since those are no longer able to hunt and keep population levels at what is needed for that ecosystem. 

I personally agree with the authors view on how he now looks back at what he did and feels regretful about it. I say this because, you should only kill animals if you intend to eat them, and if you don't than your wasting valuable resources that other animals need to survive. We humans happen to be the most invasive species known to the earth's existence and it shows when we have charts that show us how we have disrupted ecosystems all around the world, we as a species have not learned to co-inhabit the earth with other animals properly. 

Ted Talk Summary

To what extent will researchers go, to understand the unknown language of dolphins. Denise Herzing has been researching in the Bahamas for the past 28 years. What they have come up with, is if you show the dolphin a specific object like a scarf, and the dolphin will have a specific whistle for that object. They have recorded the whistles and have analysed them, and have found that the language of dolphins is not in an average humans hearing ranges. I can say that for me personally I would like to be able to have the opportunity to observe, record, and interact with these playful creatures, because this is a remarkable experiment and has been getting positive results.