"A man is never on trial..."

                                          fox has begun bringing his own bowl...

read a good article about the Russian experiment to domesticate foxes
It went much faster than expected and now there is a breed of fox as tame
as a dog.
Some animals respond to people more than others and dogs are supposed
to have been domesticated when some of the wolves which followed
hunters became less afraid and eventually their pups were caught and
thus began the domestication of what we now refer to as "dogs".

"A single gene can profoundly alter behavior, especially when it affects
the threshold of response or level of excitability." E.O. Wilson

a lot of people laughed at officer Patrick McGovern when he entered
a burning shed to rescue a chicken which lived there but it was an act
of compassion and a heroic deed.

As for BLAKE FISCHER of of Idaho fish and game who went to Africa
and killed (he said he harvested them) a family of 4 baboons with his bow
and arrow and then also killed  a giraffe, a leopard, an impala, a waterbuck
a kudu, a warthog, a gemsbok and an eland.
What is this fellow thinking about? I have worked with all of these animals except
the warthog and to kill one for sport seems a bit primitive...real primitive actually.

I read a good article about "OBAYSCH" the hippo that lived in the London zoo in1849.
He eventually got a wife named Adhela and they had a baby named Miss Guy who lived
36 years.
I worked with a Nile river hippo named Bertha when I was 15 years old and a zookeeper.
I used to let her chase me around the hippo pool and we had great fun. One day
I was in the hippo house and had stuck my head through the horizontal bars that
went across the front of the hippo pool. Suddenly Bertha came up out of the pool
and opened her mouth very wide and my head was inside her mouth. Her top and
bottom teeth  were stopped from closing because of the bars. I always wondered if she
would have bitten my head off if she could have. I never put my head through the bars again.

"A man is never on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune."

well got to go
waiting for Oumuamua

Nicholas Chauvin