Just watched a TV programme in which the male of one pride of lions killed the kittens of another.
Why is it that the people filming these programmes don’t scare the killer off or would that be sort of like disobeying the prime directive?
Exactly like disobeying the prime directive, not sort of like. They are there to observe and learn, not meddle and disrupt.
A very serious problem from tourists, while visiting Yellowstone Park, is their habit of driving bears away from the baby fawns they catch.
Why is it so hard to understand that “saving” any animal is not your responsibility, nor is it something you should feel competent to decide.
Nature isn’t sweet and noble. It is vicious, brutal and nasty. And we are part of nature. Smile real big and look in a mirror. You have pointy teeth at the corners of your mouth for a reason.
“Scar[ing] the killer off” would be stupid and pointless. Unless maybe you wanted to snatch the doomed cubs at the last second, and condemn them to a life in a zoo or medical lab or something.
But still this act would be ill-considered, because you would be artificially supporting the perpetuation of less-than-optimal genes.
Which is exactly why Simba kills the cubs of his fallen predecessor.
“Don’t meddle in that which you do not understand” is pretty good advice in matters such as these.
~Wolfrick
I’d say it’s just “letting nature take it’s course”.
There is one nature documentary whose producers should be up for court martial at StarFleet: I once saw a show about these communal birds from Africa or someplace. They make this huge, like, 1 meter by 2 meter hanging nest out of dried grass. It looks like a lot of work. Well, the filmmakers say that sometimes the dew condenses on the tree they’re making it in, and focuses the suns rays and these burst into flame, and they show it happen. So I think “Wow! That must suck to have flammable houses like that”.
Only much later did I realize that this can’t happen very often at all, and that the only reason they caught it on film was 'cause they torched it themselves. Meanies!
I had a cat that smothered the runt of her litter. I knew she wanted it dead and tried to intervene, but it just brought out the detrmined baby-killer in her.
As for faked documantaries: Lemmings don’t actually do the one thing they’re most famous for commit mass suicide. This was the invention of a Disney documentary.Lemmings