People go on about how dumb animals are and how smart people are. Well, that's nonsense. Animals may not have the intellectual capacity we humans have but they also don't think about doing dumb things to other animals and then go ahead and do it. People do. How smart is that? Let's face it- some people are just plain dumb. They really came from the bottom of the gene pool.

There's the old lion lying in the savannah. His sight is almost gone and his hearing is also almost gone. He can't run too fast. It's mostly a fast limp. He eats leftovers, if he can see any. He's not the ferocious lion he once was. The brave, young bucks from the village spot him and decide to sneak up on him and make him look foolish. The tribe calls them idiots. There they go, sneaking up on the lion, knowing he can't see them or hear them. They get right up on him poking with spears and he rips them up with claws and teeth. They didn't realize that old didn't mean dead, which they would soon be. The “dumb” young lions knew it and so did the hyenas. You won't see them trying a stunt like that. They wait until the buzzards give them the okay sign.

It's interesting to watch how they milk a rattlesnake to make an anti-venom. Interesting but not something a normal person wants to do untrained. Snakeboy wasn't a normal person. He watches the show and sees them snare a snake and milk it. He thinks it's easy. He also thinks the snare is a little sissified. He a firm believer that the hand is quicker than the eye. Yes, the hand is quicker than the human eye. It's not quicker than the snake's eye.

Snake boy drives out into the desert in the late afternoon when the temperature stars to cool and the snakes are coming out to hunt supper. He hears a rattler and gets behind him. Safe enough since the snake is deaf. At the last second he grabs the snake. At the very last second the snake sees him and grabs Snakeboy. Then the snake milks himself into Snakeboy's hand.

Snakeboy screams and jumps around and finally flings the snake away. Then he rushes to his car and heads to the nearest hospital wondering whereto he can get to the hospital before the venom gets to his heart. The snake? He just misses a meal.

We've all seen the animal shows about the great ape. The narrator whispers so the ape can't hear him as though they also can't see him. The ape does see the film crew and starts grunting, beating his chest, jumping up and down and charging. He runs about six feet toward them and then runs back to where he was and starts all over again. Sort of looks like a hairy, overgrown sissy. The foolhardy believe this and decide to sneak into the ape compound to tease the gorilla, thinking they're all noise and no action. That's just plain wrong.

The ape will react to a real threat. He'll run away. Apes are pacifists at heart. Being in an enclosed area leaves little room for running away.. At some point he'll run into the idiot. It's like being hit by a couple of hopped up defensive linemen. Then the ape will do his grunting, thumping and jumping up and down. The dumb ass ends up as a blot in the dirt.

Need I say anything about crocodiles? Yes, I do. Goofs mess with them despite all the warnings not to try this on your own. Idiots think of crocs as big lizards instead of small dinosaurs that they are. I don't know what killed off the dinosaurs but whatever it was, the crocodile toughed it out. What does that tell you? It tells me to leave them alone. That's me, not the he-man who spots a crocodile sunning himself along the bank of an everglade.

Yea, the crocodile has very weak jaw muscles for opening his mouth. His jaw muscles for closing could shear iron plates. The he-man thinks that if he grabs the crocodile and holds his mouth closed he's got it made. After doing this he realizes that he has to let go at some point. He has to let go and get away from the crocodile before the crocodile can catch him, clamp him tight and bury him in the bank for a while until the he-man gets ripe, real ripe.

A short note here. Wolves are not mangy-looking dogs. They cannot be housebroken. They cannot be tamed. Get a pup, raise it and it will rip your throat out the first chance it gets. It's like trying to tame a rat.

Everyone knows you don't sneak up on a hibernating bear and poke him in the ass with a sharp stick. You just don't do that. There are a brave, adventuresome few who do just that. They're what we call fools. They think a hibernating bear is asleep. He's not. His heart rate is very slow in order to survive a long time without food. You poke him in the ass with a sharp stick and his heart rate jumps through the roof. Unlike people, he doesn't get up groggy and try to look at his wound. He wakes up with his adrenalin surging and feels no need to look at his wound. He looks at the soon to be former person and goes after him. He's not planning to poke the human in the ass with a sharp stick either.

There are things you just don't do.