Nice capture of something not often seen. It always amazes me how this behavior, which is obviously going on all the time, is not often seen.
Don,
We shun such images and, especially at this time of year, focus on decorations and trinkets to buy that have no reference in nature. It's a shock to most folk to be faced with the reality of hanging guts in a shredded bird! After all, the duck we see on a dinner plate is usually garnished beautifully and presented with colorful vegetables in low light! The raw survival part of things is pushed further and further back from our consciousness so that the average person in a modern society has no sense of what brutality has in store for most living creatures!
The cruelty of war, is likely a return to plain raw human behavior. We consider it aberrant, but it may be more normal than buying a Piaget watch for Christmas!
That handsome lion, is not just a figure to decorate the glossy magazine pages to sell some expensive perfume or show that an investment fund is strong. Rather the lion's job is to hunt down creatuees like Bambi and tear them open to feed itself and it's pride.
So whenever we see the picture with a "graphic" warning I think oh, back to nature. I hope that we show these pictures so we have a sense of reality. Everything is not pristine.
Asher
