"It's hard to be an animal"

So said my boy. We were watching a documentary about tiger sharks--one pregnant tiger shark in particular. It took her forever to find some food. But that's pretty much what her life was about: the search for food. I'm glad we're free to have other concerns.

I get annoyed with eating sometimes. I'm in the middle of something--and blam! I'm hungry again and have to decide what to eat. But it beats wandering around like a wild animal, looking for food, starving 80% of the time [this is not a scientifically-derived number, just a personal, ignorant estimate].

I also watched a coelacanth documentary. While I understand some scientists' urges to capture and study the fish, the documentary barely mentioned conserving these still possibly rare fish. Thankfully, there is a movement to prevent the overfishing of coelacanths: dinofish.com.