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Not that I am in a hurry to die, but I will say humans. The earth and all other species would be better off without us.
Agree.
If wars don't write us off, what we are doing to the planet has us on the road to extinction.
“I'd like to share a revelation that I´ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague and we… are the cure.” (Agent Smith - The Matrix)
If wars don't write us off, what we are doing to the planet has us on the road to extinction.
“I'd like to share a revelation that I´ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? ” (Agent Smith - The Matrix)
Many of them, actually. We aren't unique in fouling our habitat, just without equal in our ability to do so.
They might not count as animals, but why The Creator designed fleas and mosquitoes to leave nasty itchy welts is beyond my understanding!
Of course they're "animals". They're autonomous, independently mobile beings aren't they? As for what the Creator endowed them with, it doesn't include the ability to create itchy welts. That's a histamine reaction to bug saliva. The being they bit is responsible for it.
I've always wondered what role ticks play in the ecosystem.
Mosquitoes
Roaches
Fleas
A few less house sparrows wouldn't be bad either - they kill things like bluebirds! (they are not protected in the US)
Ticks can provide a nutritious meal for reptiles and birds...possibly a more nutritious one than that offered by other similarly-sized insects because of what they feed on: blood. Some would consider blood a very complete nutritious meal and it's already been metabolized! You are what you eat. Something that eats you also eats what you do. There are a number of birds that target ticks, lice, and other ectoparasites as they ride around on their larger hosts. Even tiny biting bugs provide a meal for something.
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