The Ugliest Taxidermy: In Human Form

The flow of stunning instances captured is indefatigable.
Shouldering torturous patience, the efforts of photographers are no less unfatiguing.
Hours, perhaps days, of physical and mental endurance snapping shots non-stop.

Stealing the exact moment, not more than a second, sealing in immortality that grand insight imparted

Photograph by Mohit Mitha, National Geographic

by nature play.

Something that humans cannot see or feel,
Something that beings miss or fail,
Something, in the name of nature, that mankind may have forgotten,
Worst still, forgotten to pass on to posterity.

Global chaos and turbulence,
Living and working have maneuvered their lives.
Fighting and surging have usurped their goals.
Staying alive and making right have earmarked the only reason their purpose.

Hardened or chastened, indifference or ignorance, many are wearing out or worn-out by brutal reality, by bullies of wealth and/or power. They unburdened themselves, perhaps, by forgetting?

Like a baby in a tub, huge mammal enjoyed a dip in a river, enjoyed her master scrubbing and pampering. The repose demonstrates a docile mammal in serenity. The mysterious bond of closeness outweighs the weight of the elephants and mankind combined.

Dodo, a male chimpanzee in a zoo in Thailand became 'Nature's Nanny', bottle feeding a tiger cub. It may playful or it may be contrived, but is it not natural for one animal to care for another abandoned baby animal? Read about Dodo, The Nanny, www.animal-space.net

Anjan, another chimpanzee nanny, who has already babysat lion cubs, leopard cubs and two rare white tiger cubs. All attesting true nature, the created order between all and every living things. the love and compassion exists in human exist in many greater animals too.

Click here for Anjan, alessasadversaria.blogspot.com!

Does it matter with scientific and religious disputes of each and every living thing's origin? Heaven knows all these greater animals have been the rulers or patriotic leaders of a world before modern man begun, and not human?

Images of blissful exchanged gestures among animals and humans. Beautiful to see the sight of them, wonderful to behold the deep and open well of genuine emotions, gifts to a planet not own by human. Yet they are rampant targets of human predators. Perpetrators, consumers and participants in the brutal, abominable chains of a dying animal kingdom, the entire work is, in fact, an accurate make a taxidermy of undeserved wealth and selfish avarice in truest but ugliest form, the human form.

Loving pictures: animal-friends, click here.                     

It Is Ecosystem, Not Egotism

8813, aka 8^th August, 2013, shall be imprinted in memory a day of extreme disappointment and anger towards unlearned consumers.

One atrocity after another, ensuing more destruction than before, as the latest major smuggle bust a week ago in Hong Kong on ivory, animals' tusk and skins has attested. An uncontrolled industry


endorsed by the travesty of a herd of consumer’s heinous wants. A destructive industry kowtowed to distasteful and obnoxious new and increasing affluence.

His heart wrenched hard and painful a coercing thought of the hundreds or a thousand of elephant, rhino, leopard, and others' animal tortured and killed in this bust alone. In strict religious sense, they are god-sent animals to partake in the continuance, sustenance and maintenance of the whole ecosystem; in firm naturalism sense, they are Nature's gifts help to protect and adhere to a coexistence compulsory for a healthy earth.

Yet, in the last decade, global wealth spiked so sharply for a herd of egotistic, impassive and provincial consumers that, in the worst scenario that transpired, to sentence a rapid death to animals and the ecosystem. Killing many endangered species to decorate their homes with animals' death, adorn with many things a sure symbol of sentenced death.


GOLDEN DAY

Proper re-education or rehabilitation is exactly this wild herd of unruly compositions needed. How do they brag their ginormous ego to their descendants a display of a decorated tusks or taxidermy Siberian tiger? Sadly, the blogger has lost no doubts that their old money or new found affluence have thrust them into a deluded reality prizing animal parts in costly expense of our aging and ailing ecosystem.

These consumers and proud collectors usurped their current pleasure and luxury with their wealth to leave a legacy their descendants one day will regret; unless they move to Mars.

For readers to why poachers risk life and smugglers jail, here are two excerpts:

1) Ivory can fetch up to $2,000 per kilogram ($910 per pound) on the black market and more than $50,000 for an entire tusk. Read here for details, Ivory Smuggling Hong Kong, huffingtonpost.com

2) Officials found 1,200 polished ivory tusks, 13 black and white rhino horns and five leopard skins, according to the South China Morning Post. The ivory was reportedly worth more than $1,000 per kilogram, the rhino horns more than $25,000 per kilogram and the leopard skins could fetch tens of thousands of dollars each on the illegal blackmarket. Click here for details,.natureworldnews.com, hong-kong-officials-seize-1-200-elephant-tusks-13-rhino

Top Image: 35. Rhino and two zebras under cloudy sky in the savanna in Kenya. (© Robin Moore / National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest), Click here for more stunning photos.

Bottom Image: Golden Day, http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/serengeti-lion/index.html?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=inside_20130815&utm_campaign=Content#/golden-day

Ivory Trade Is Destroying Our Ecosystem

Adornments make from animal tusks are naturally beautiful. Stuffed leopards or tigers used to be fascinating in living rooms. Tusks or horns hanging on the wall while owners breathed in unwholesome admiration that made them unwholesome. He was just an innocent child not knowing he had just begun to trail

and witness Man’s selfishness, deeply buried in inhumane pleasure, paving the path to our current endangered ecosystem. The child’s naïve belief in nature’s eternal beauty horrifically reduced to rumbles, like that of an ancient temple, utterly annihilated the faith, the hope for those participate and perpetuate these atrocities, inside a grown-up blogger in only 40 years.

So many species from above the sky to the ocean bottom are either seriously endangered or drove into extinction. An ecosystem includes every living thing on the planet, all interdependencies between every living thing, a co-existence, which without it shall be us, the human beings who will suffer eventually, inevitably. Encouraging poaching for luxury goods by provincial interests is uneducated, parochial and an apostate in human values. The wealthy, the powerful, misled parvenus, witchdoctors and unlearned self-proclaimed doctors, the entire misinformed community are the source of interests to kill and poach that destined the current shocking genocide in our animal kingdom.

The blogger, while took time to google for images of targeted animals with tusks which mostly are elephants, and others are hippopotamuses, walruses and narwhales (click here for narwhale, Wikipedia), some images came across depicted the face and tusks being chopped off, dead or alive.

One gruesome image of an elephant bent on knees without face and tusks waiting a painful death. An animal that exhibit mirror self-recognition among peers of dolphins and apes. Please read more, Elephants in Wikipedia!

The blogger sorrowed,
 
"Elephants are among the most intelligent animals, how can a human execute such an act? I pain to learn of poverty but my heart bleeds for the elephant"

Then he thought,

“It is not the animals that cause the severity of climate change, it is humans whose insatiate greed and evil traits that turbocharge the severity;

It is not the animals that need to be tamed and caged, it is humans who need to be educated and contained of this indispensable co-existence.”
 
The profound image above is by Michael Durham via The Oregon Zoo in this blog, Twisted Sifter.
The lower image is by Change.org: Stop Ivory Trade.