Thursday, July 29, 2010

A friendly reminder from Mother Gaia:

When you get far enough out in the boonies in many places on this wonderful planet, you are no longer at the top of the food chain.

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  1. The posts on that article are a bizarre mix of pathetic and funny. I think the latter is unintentional.

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  2. Properly armed humans are always at the top of the food chain, wherever they roam. I think that isolates the problem here.

    Mark R.

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  3. Mark R.,

    As the saying goes, "Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you."

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  4. "Properly armed humans are always at the top of the food chain, wherever they roam. I think that isolates the problem here."

    If it looks like a rabbit, and acts like a rabbit, it will be treated as such: prey for all predators. If it looks like a rabbit and bites like a rattlesnake, rabbits will be safer and predators more reticent.

    Do grizzlies hunt rattlesnakes? Lions don't screw around with cobras .... there is a lesson in that.

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  5. Natural Selection at work.

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  6. Another reason I carry a .44 to the great outdoors :)

    A snout full of Corbon is a mighty fine deterrent

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  7. Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of bears, I will fear no evil, for they are with me. My Browning and my Kalashnikov, they comfort me.

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  8. But... but that never happens in the Disney films! Baloo never et nobody!

    Damn reality is on the fritz again.

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  9. Even in many supposedly settled areas, mosquitoes are on top of the food chain.

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  10. Moritat von Mickey Grizzly

    O the grizzly and her bear cubs
    think your tent's a candy bar
    Recommended: sawed off 12 gauge
    DO NOT leave it in the car

    In a campground, Sunday morning
    All the campers, full of woe
    Had some bears go on a rampage
    Where the hell else would bears go?

    Poor Old Yogi and little BooBoo
    Just tell Mr. Ranger Sir
    they came for my pic-a-nic basket
    Left with slug-holes in their fur

    Remind Yogi, Balloo and BooBoo
    It is best if they turned and ran
    They'll recall we make no truces
    When the Bear walks like a man

    Make ye no truce with Adam-zad
    The bear that walks like a Man!

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