Ducks and week old ducklings aren't accustomed or evolved to navigating asphalt streets, cars, and sewer systems. They don't anticipate a sewer grate every 80 feet just like a month old Elk isn't accustomed to dodging cars traveling 70MPH on the highway.
That's the issue with humans encroaching on land wildlife once called home.
About 20 years I had a similar experience. Where I was working, there were wild turkeys everywhere. 5 of them fell down a sewer drain and i did get every one of them out. It was a wakeup call to me. Natural wildlife is affected in ways we generally don't think about.
That's what frustrates me so much when I see these videos of tourists in a jeep in the middle of the Safari. By having a caravan of tourists sitting in their jeeps with engines running would distract or drown out the noises of Lions targeting a Leopard. Had those tourists not been talking and those tourist jeeps not been running, that Leopard would have spotted the lions a mile away.
Someone with a brain, thank you!!!! I was so annoyed seeing comments about wild life not being smart enough. So I guess they’re suppose to accommodate to our way of living? I guess it’s supposed to be craved into their DNA to work with our infrastructure and ways of living. We never take accountability, that we are poisoning and imposing on their lands. Hardly leaving anything else for the the rest of the animal kingdom
What would humanity be if we didn’t intrude on the last few places we left the animals and annoy them there too. They might get ideas like the world not just belonging to humans since we take the right to ruin everything on it for ourselves
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u/Enough_Simple921 7d ago edited 7d ago
How did they get down there?
Ducks and week old ducklings aren't accustomed or evolved to navigating asphalt streets, cars, and sewer systems. They don't anticipate a sewer grate every 80 feet just like a month old Elk isn't accustomed to dodging cars traveling 70MPH on the highway.
That's the issue with humans encroaching on land wildlife once called home.
About 20 years I had a similar experience. Where I was working, there were wild turkeys everywhere. 5 of them fell down a sewer drain and i did get every one of them out. It was a wakeup call to me. Natural wildlife is affected in ways we generally don't think about.
That's what frustrates me so much when I see these videos of tourists in a jeep in the middle of the Safari. By having a caravan of tourists sitting in their jeeps with engines running would distract or drown out the noises of Lions targeting a Leopard. Had those tourists not been talking and those tourist jeeps not been running, that Leopard would have spotted the lions a mile away.
Fucked up.