The Clock Is Ticking

“This story is awesome. Reminds me of when that snake and mouse became best friends in that Japanese zoo about a year or so ago. Wait, shouldn't they just make a zoo filled with all these animals that become best friends across species?”—Avon Marksdale

It certainly is cute that a pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia's tropical rainforests.

But aren’t we missing the bigger picture?

In the world of reality TV and online gambling that we currently live in, wouldn’t this make a great TV show? We could call it “Natural Selection” or something Darwin-like. The show is much like The Truman Show, but in this case with orangutans and tigers. We put together a fake habitat (done.) in which they can play and befriend each other in the early days of their lives. Then we sit back and watch the carnage unfold.

People of the world could gamble on such things as the first to leave the environment, the first to stop playing, the first to die, last animal standing, etc. With names like “Nia and Irma”, and “Dema and Manis”, the bets are sure to roll in.

Veterinarian Retno Sudarwati seems to agree, “It's sad, but we can’t change their natural behavior." "Tigers start eating meat when they are three months old”, she said.

I agree it’s sad, but the clock is ticking……………………..and my money is on tiger cub, “Preying” Manis.

Who is your money on?

HaHa!---It’s your world, but here---it’s mine.