Subject: More about bears
Date: Aug 27 23:04:35 1998
From: MBlanchrd at aol.com - MBlanchrd at aol.com


An interesting sidenote to this very definitely non birdy thread....we are
seeing evolution in action. As Jack Horner, the paleontologist of Egg Mountain
fame puts it, evolution is the result of environmental stress.

The exploding population of humans on this planet is putting enormous stress
on the rest of the creatures that live with us. The ones that cannot adapt to
our pollution, our despoiling the air, the water, the soil..the ones that
cannot adapt to our proximity and wholesale destruction of forest, swamp,
steppe and ocean..are the ones that are going extinct. Witness the grizzly
bear, an animal that needs vast expanses of wilderness. And yet black bears
can live in our very backyards. Witness the wolf, who needs large herbivores
to feed on, and what's living in our Capitol Forest but coyotes? Need I
mention birds??? What's our cities full of? Certainly not delicate warblers
and vireos...no, our buildings are home to starlings, and house sparrows and
pigeons.
Evolution is right before our eyes, folks, and we're driving it.
Michelle