More Interesting? by Nigel A JAMES
Wolves
will be Wolves!
Some
howling observations by Nigel A. JAMES
Last
Saturday I visited a wild life park near the small Austrian town of
Ernstbrunn. And, the reason for this was the wolves. This
was my first ever time of being so close to these animals! They were
just meters away from where I was standing.
And
then I got talking to one of the wolf-scientists who works in
the park. And, what he told me was of great interest. He told me
that there are tremendous similarities between wolves and
ourselves! We are, for example, both very social, we both eat meat,
we both live in packs, and we both need leaders. And then he
told me that the best way of finding out about people was by
studying wolves! And, this was where the ways of our thinking
parted.
If
the differences are really so minimal, then, why doesn't he study
people to find out about wolves! It would be much simpler! For a
start, he wouldn't need to keep animals shut up, and
secondly, he would be able to understand the answers to his
questions. People speak and wolves only howl! And, thirdly,
people have changed with progression,
wolves haven't at all. They are still as they always have been. In
other words, we have developed, they haven't!
And,
this is the point. Why haven't wolves moved on with the
times? And, why is it that we are the ones with a conscious?
All very interesting. And, just how true are the frightening stories
of big bad wolves and all the wrong that they do? Some are true, I
am sure. But, there is one more very big difference.
We
understand the differences between right and wrong and wolves
don't. So, why do we do more wrong than they do? Simply put, wolves
do as they should and we do as we want. Maybe, this is a lesson we
could learn from the wolves. Should we start doing as we should and
not as we want? And, if so, what should we do? Should we start
being like wolves, or stay as we are? A question that's easy
to answer. I would say stay as we are!
Wolves
will be wolves and we will be us! And that's what we have in
common. Wolves are themselves and we are ourselves! Wolves are
wild and we are wild! There's nothing more to it than that! And,
what could be better? Here's to the call of the wild!
Selected
Vocabulary
conscious –
Gewissen
in common –
Gemeinsames
developed –
entwickelt
differences –
Unterschiede
howl –
Heulen
like
– gleich (auch mögen)
moved on –
entwickelt
pack –
Rudel
progression –
Fortschritt
reason –
Grund
scientist –
Wissenschaftler
shut
up – eingesperrt
tremendous
– riesig
wolf/wolves -
1 wolf - 2 wolves
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