My Love for Animals

Ever since I was little, collecting tons of Beanie Babies and stuffed animals, I had loved animals. I pretended that they were real (maybe because I lacked real friends) and I always researched animals and I even had/ still have a huge book about animals, which I cherish. My love for animals only grew, to the point where I think I now care about animals more than humans. Now, let me explain. A lot of animals are helpless not to mention harmless. They are like babies, they don't know any better. Humans on the other hand... Well, we have brains (some of us) and we don't really use them.

We have destroyed our land, our home... Now, what animal would purposely destroy their own home? I can't think of any that would. Animals kill for survival and for food, people kill for fun. Animals are free and we claim to be free but if you really think about it.. We really aren't. (I know there are nations that are worse off than America, but this country is not what it originally set out to be)

This gif was taken from tumblr

"You can see the animal in the human and the human in the animal." I love this gif.

I admire animals, I admire their beauty and their lives. I admire all nature and I wish I could live within it among the animals, granted... that I didn't die by getting eaten by something. They don't live as long as we do, but they fulfill their duties and get to live their lives however they want. I'm not an animal expert so I don't know how each animals life is structured and what courses they follow, but from what I've observed, it's a pretty chill life. 

But then again, all I've really seen is what they show us at zoos. I know those animals aren't happy and I wish I could save them and let them go free. In the wild, not in the cities. Those poor animals should never have been captured and put on display. The only reason I'm somewhat ok with zoos is that a lot of the animals are held in captivity so that their species doesn't go extinct. But then again... If it wasn't for us humans killing those animals and destroying their habitats, we wouldn't have to forcefully breed them to keep their species alive.

I know humans aren't the only things that drove animals to extinction, there's global warming (polar bears) and other things as well. However, global warming is caused partly by us so you can almost say that we did drive animals to extinction. Think about deforestation.. That doesn't happen by itself either. This is one of the reasons why I like the World Wildlife Fund (wwf.org) because this group is trying to redeem themselves, they're trying to actually help the animals and do things that benefit them. I have no love for PETA though, sorry, they just aren't accomplishing anything except for angering people and creeping them out. The goal is to help animals, not stray people away from helping them.

Some endangered animals according to the World Wildlife Fund include:

• The Asian Elephant
• The Bengal Tiger
• The Black Rhino
• The Blue Whale
• The Chimpanzee
• The Giant Panda
• Sea Lions
• The Snow Leopard
• The Amur Tiger

These are just a few, there are many many more. And a lot more are vulnerable and on the verge of becoming endangered like Polar Bears and Red Pandas. There are even animals that I've never heard of. I encourage anyone interested to look them up, they're very interesting.

It's all a mess and I wish we hadn't played with God's creatures. I know a long time ago humans killed animals to survive because we are animals too, and I guess if you look at it from Darwin's perspective and natural selection "only the strongest and best suited survive" but isn't it a bit scary to know that we are at the top of the food chain. No one can beat us, unless we're caught off guard. We are our own worst enemy. We kill everything whether its other animals for food or other people for fun. And that's a scary thought.

Pretty soon our children and our children's children (ok not that soon) aren't even going to know about some of these species of animals. The elephant, my favorite animal will only be a legend. Think about that and please, if you can, donate to help these animals. We screwed up their lives while they did nothing to us except grace us with their presence, it's the least we can do.