Re: nature
They were Racer snakes Carys, waiting to ambush the iguanas on the Galapagos Islands.
I grew up watching nature programmes so the polar bear/seal action is nature in the raw. Its all about survival, the polar bear doesn't make a conscious decision to persecute seals, either it kills or it starves to death. Far crueller by a country mile are human beings.
Last year I stood looking out the kitchen window in time to see a female sparrowhawk take a collared dove in mid flight.
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