a collection of sometimes scientific thoughts

Friday, January 29, 2010

Mother Nature: nurturing caregiver, or stone-cold bitch?

I love the dichotomy we can find in nature. A pretty flower has thorns. A cute grizzly cub will one day grow into a flesh-craving, man-eating beast. And the predator can sometimes decide to cuddle with it's prey.
More images and story can be found here.

Cute, huh?

This is such a stark contrast to the violent predator-prey images I'm so accustomed to seeing [Link to very graphic image of predator-prey interaction]. Not so cute, but I have to admit, my eyes were fixed on the penguin longer than the antelope.