This little guy tried to saddle up to the mama lion behind him. She chased him off (I have pics of her basically nipping him to get him to go away). Then he just sat here for a while by himself, crying for his mom. Who was apparently gone because he cried and cried and no one came to him. I was heartsick. I walked down the dock and when I came back Chris told me that he was dead - killed by one of the moms.
It's messed up, but I was actually relieved. I think getting killed quickly is a much better death than starving, scared, and alone. I don't know how we could've left there if he was still alive and crying for his mom. You are not supposed to meddle with wildlife, but dude... How can you not help? :(
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
