Mother Nature: Kind of a bitch
Yesterday morning, I was taking the trash to the curb. After our evening rain, there were a lot of earthworms squirming around on the driveway. On my way back, one such earthworm was in the garage. I decided to help the little fella (err, actually, I seem to recall from high school biology that earthworms aren’t exactly fellas but are sort of gender neutral) out and picked him up and tossed him into the grass. I figured it’d help the earthworm out and keep me from later having a dried earthworm carcass in my garage. About 2 seconds after the worm hit the ground, a bird landed, snatched it up and took off. Kinda sucks for the earthworm but I guess getting eaten is better than shriveling up in my garage.
April 10th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
Sounds like the harbor seal in AK that was loving nursed back to health after being rescued from the Valdez oil spill; months of touch-and-go rehabilitation until finally, one day, the seal was strong enough to be sent back into the wild.
It was loaded onto a boat and brought to the mouth of the harbor. They triumphantly released this poor seal back into the ocean, free once again.
With cameras still rolling, the seal swam approximately 300 feet out from the boat, and was promptly eaten by a killer whale.