Who's Your Audience

Have you ever seen those shows where scientists (or perhaps they aren't even scientists at all?) go into some natural habitat under the guise of animal preservation? One by one they abduct the animals by shooting them with a narcotic. They measure, weigh, tag, sometimes perform surgery, and then release the animal back into its normal habitat...so they can track it? I saw about five minutes of a show like this the other day. They (they meaning scientists) had trapped a female wolf. They checked her teeth, weighed her, measured her, made notes about her, and then put a collar on her before releasing her back "into the wild." I mean, what if the collar gets caught on some branch and she dies of starvation or strangles? Is that part of her natural existence?

These animals are on a completely different plane of consciousness than humans. If we gave them a choice...if we sat them down and explained it all to them...

"hey look, we feel really bad for destroying your natural habitat so here's what we're going to do. We're going to abduct all of your relatives and tag them so that we can learn about them. It won't hurt...much. Then we're going to enclose all of you in a fenced in area...a nice fenced in area...and make sure that you repopulate yourselves so we don't have to feel bad about ourselves for destroying your family"

...do you think they would say, "oh okay, since you put it that way, sure!"

Well, maybe. I can't speak for the animals. It just makes me wonder. Who are the aliens anyway?

And we thought alien abduction was just a story line tied into the x-files series.