Just got off watching a program on Discovery: Beauty of snakes - Life in cold blood. It showed some amazing shots of snakes catching their prey. That got me thinking... There's no chance that all these wildlife channels capture natural shots of a predator catching and eating their prey. I mean whats the chance that a snake will just happen to visit the same bird's nest inside which you have placed your camera? One in a million? I had the same uneasy feeling as the day I realized, as a kid, that WWF wrestling is fake and its all staged.
Common sense suggest that all the footage has got to be staged. In all possibility, the snake was placed close to the nest (and hopefully not forced into the nest), after the camera was placed in it. The scene where the python ate the antelope was probably staged too. It has to be.
That brings an interesting question - Why dont animal rights activists do anything about it? Are they getting a cut from these channels to keep their mouths shut? I mean whats more cruel than maiming, or drugging an antelope and placing a python close to it, with the hope that it gets eaten? And the grossest thing is that its all done for fun. Discovery fakes it because we all enjoy watching it.
I was under the impression that blood sports died with monarchy. But I guess the game has just changed with the times. Wildlife channels are the new blood sport organisers who pit the hunter against the hunted. And all of us are voyeurs who relish watching the hunt.
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