Turtles and Moths

10/9/14

9:45 PM

Humans typically admire animals because humans often feel guilty for treating animals unequally for the benefit of human power or that humans love how animals look and act. This means that humans have taken a majority of animal’s habitats and feel responsible for destroying nature. Also, humans typically admire animals because humans love studying, looking at or living with animals as pets often treating the pet like another person.

Hoagland and Woolf admire turtle and moths’ natural lives. Hoagland and Woolf put themselves in a turtle and moth’s shoes to understand what it would be like to be a turtle or moth. In both stories, Hoagland and Woolf are faced with a moth and turtle struggling to survive and decide to let the animals suffer and die. The reason why Woolf and Hoagland let the animals die is because nature is not fair, death occurs and there is nothing humans can do to cure the wild from death. On page ¾, Woolf states, “One’s sympathies, of course, were all on the side of life”, admitting that Woolf wanted to save the moth from death but did not want to interfere with nature. Also, in Hoagland’s story, Hoagland admits that humans have disrupted the way turtles live their natural lives by capturing the turtles from the wild and bringing turtles back to the city.

            I admire Osprey because of their ability to adapt to human’s invasion of their habitat and food source. Ospreys are large water birds that only eat fish and migrate from New England to Florida for the winter. Often, humans have developed buildings on most coastlines and marshlands interfering with osprey’s nesting habitat. Over the last few decades, ospreys have developed nesting on top of human objects. For example, ospreys have designed nests on football stadium lights, abandon water shacks, and even cellular towers. I admire the osprey because they have adjusted to the human’s construction and adapted by discovering places to take advantage of a safe, out of the way habitat. Also, ospreys do not create trouble, osprey mind their own business by fishing in the ocean or ponds and bringing the fish back to their nest to feed their families. Ospreys do not create trouble in the wild, osprey stay out of other animal’s lives and try to survive on their own.

Osprey Picture: http://savetheeaglesinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/osprey-with-bass.jpg