Endangered Species

Endangered Species.

Prince Philip is one of an endangered species, perhaps that is why he
is so keen on other animals in the same position. There were Kings and
Queens galore in Europe (and elsewhere) two hundred years ago, and
still quite a few at the beginning of the last century. At this
Millenium they are nearly extinct. There has been some to-ing and
fro-ing with the Bourbons in Spain, the Dutch keep theirs in a Council
House, and there are a few King Zogs and Togs of extinct countries in
exile. Why Prince Rainier of Monaco is not King Rainier, no-one knows.
Our own Royals are the best preserved. They have special habitats
called Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral, Osborne, and Buckingham
Palace.

The Do-Do did everyone a favour by dying out. If it had not, it would
be just another zoo species. No more remarkable than a spiny ant-eater,
or a wallaby. Historically, humans have always wanted to keep exotic
animals. Most Nobles had their own menageries. Even the Romans imported
wild beasts. Elephants, Giraffes, Rhinos, etc, for interest, and Lions
for barbarism.

All we actually need here are us humans and, presuming we remain
carnivorous, those animals we eat. The world changes it's make-up. It
changed it 80million years ago and the dinosaurs became extinct. There
were no humans about at that time to create artificial conditions to
save them, or we would be lumbered with all those as well as Giant
Pandas. Imagine the out of date lettuces just one Brontosaurus would
eat. If we save a species from extinction, as we are now doing, how
long do we keep them going? We assume the obligation when we save them
to keep them in existence for ever. No good keeping them for a while to
kill them off. It would be better whenever species fade away just to
let them become extinct. It is in their best interests. We humans are
preserving them for our own selfish reasons, the main one being a sort
of look-at-me saviour, a preserver for posterity, (let posterity look
after itself) to satisfy an idle curiosity to see a living creature
when there is no place in the world now that animal can naturally
live.

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