Sunday Stealing:

 

 Animals

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal  all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise  to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and  intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

1.  What is your favorite animal, and why? I love them all.  Why?  They made the world what it is and even figure heavily in our enjoyment of it.

2. Are people animals? Yes, we are.

 What separates humans from animals?  A tiny percentage of DNA separates us from the other apes.  We share 98.8 with bonobos and chimps.  Humans and Bonobos share 1.7%  of DNA that chimps don't share.. so they, bonobos, are our closest animal relatives, which makes perfect sense to me. 

3.   Which animal is the most dangerous?  Any of the pit vipers.  They scare the B-Geebers out of me.  When i was 13, my sibs, Dad, and I stopped at a reservoir in the middle of the cattle country.  I walked out, bare footed, into the twilight to look at the stars reflected on the surface of the water.  

I chanced to look down at the ground before getting to the edge of the water.  The ground was alive with little snakes.  I was delighted but then saw the heads were all triangular shapes.  They were baby rattlers.  My knees were shaking so badly by the time I'd worked my way back down from the rim that I must have trembled the rest of the evening.  A baby rattler is more poisonous than an adult because they hold nothing back.  They bite like there is no tomorrow.

4.   What should you do if a bear approaches you?  I've had this happen to me.,this is how i handled it....I'm not a danger ranger or anything, but  in sequoia a mother bear walked right up behind me to see what i was rinsing out - it was a pan I'd cooked oatmeal in that morning.  

I'm not (and never have been) afraid of bears.  But I have a healthy respect their power. she got the pan.  I slowly backed away from her and all the way back up onto the cabin steps.  The rangers told us not to wash dishes outside in the dawn or dusk.  The bear didn't get the memo.

5.   Do you like dogs? Why do people call the dog, man’s best friend?  I love dogs.  Dog's are man's best friend because they are incredibly loyal, devoted, and a wonderful companion.  I love cats, too, but dogs are my favorite pet.

6.   Do you enjoy going to the zoo? Some people consider zoos to be cruel environments for animals. What do you think?  I don't go to the zoo, and we have a world class one in my city.  I've said before that i didn't like the Wild Animal Park, either but this is because they trap and kill all sorts of native animals every year to keep them off of it.

7.   Where is the best place to see animals in your country? In the world?  I'm a birder, and i think you can go anywhere and see interesting birds.  I've never gone any specific place to see animals besides birds, so haven't got an opinion about it. 

8.   Are you a vegetarian? What makes some people give up eating meat?  I am as much as possible I am a vegan.  I don't like to eat meat but I'm old now so I do eat a little.  Funny how that works.  I reckon if the Dali Lama has  been advised to eat it and does, who am I to say nay?

9.   Which animal is most helpful to humans?  All the pollinators.  Bats, bees, moths butterflies

10  If you could be any animal (besides human), which animal would you like to be? Frankly, 

i'd rather be dead..  but Then again....maybe a raven.  They belong completely to God.

11.  Who would win in a fight between a tiger and a lion?  My Money is on the Tiger.

12.  What do you think about hunting animals? Would you like to try it?  I think its high time that sport hunting ended.  If you feed your family with it. ok.  My grandpa went hunting to have meat for his extended family during WWII. 

No, to the second part of the question. I grew up shooting things.  Never, ever, again will I do it.

 

13.   Books like “Watership Down” and “Animal Farm” give animals human characteristics like human thoughts or language. Is this how you think animals really are? Or are those really just stories about people?  Those two books are not the same as really knowing what an animal is thinking.  so no... 

When I was still in my teens I saw a little ground squirrel run out to the center of the lane in the rocky mountains.  This is a long time before those roads were divided highways.  This little squirrel tried repeatedly to get its fellow ground squirrel to wake up, or move or whatever.  Others were hanging around on the side.. I'll say that was my wake up call to the fact that the other animals have fellow feelings, just as we do. 

 

14.  Some animals are endangered due to illegal poaching. How do you feel about this issue? I HATE POACHERS!

15.  If we can bring an extinct animal from the past back with genetic engineering, should we do it? Which animals should we bring back?  Until we get rid of the poachers, and reduce the human gobbling up of the earth surface, we should just forget about the whole enterprise of bringing extinct animals back.  

 

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