What does Cat think about this?

Just outside of the Natural Science Museum yesterday, I saw monuments of the great smilodon fatais (Saber-toothed cat), where it stood it was carved in a large stone that was around 7 feet in height to demonstrate how big the cat really was. Of course, the statue wasn't an exact replica of the saber-toothed cat. The real cat was actually 1.5 times bigger than the statue itself. At that point, it really amazed me because I already thought it was big. Just to the right of it were dino tracks collected from the bed of Paluxy Creek, which is about 5 miles northwest of Glen Rose, Somervell County, TX. What the tracks had were consecutive foot prints of a sauropod dinosaur and three-toed theropod dinosaur. Once I saw the tracks, I many things spontaneously popped into my mind. Questions like, if the foot prints where that big, how big would they actually be? Or maybe the question of was the sauropod running away from the theropod and why? This sparked curiosity in me and left me wanting to know more. Not only were these objects displayed, information about them were displayed in detail as well.

When I went into the first floor, I encountered a fragment of a Tyrannosaurus' fossil. Found in Brewster Country, Texas, it was really a sight to see and it also startled my spirit animal inside of me. The spirit of the cat within me was started at once and didn't want to go deeper into the process any further. Once the eyes of my spirit animal saw that remnants of the dead were all around us, all it wanted to do was get out because to him and to most other creatures, seeing bones usually means a bad thing. It meant that something horrible has happened. He felt the vibe and wanted to leave. At that point, my animal wasn't thinking as logic as I thought it would. I knew that us homo sapiens didn't cause the death of these dinosaurs, but my spirit cat thought otherwise. He thought that us homo sapiens did this for experimental purposes. I had to calm my spirit down. I had to connect with him and tell him that that wasn't the case. After I have done that, we explored deeper into the museum.

On the third floor, we encountered the great Texas Coastal Birds.  Displayed were some of the many coastal birds ranging from the distinct call of the Royal Tern the more infamous White Pelican. In the glass casing was the birds standing elegantly, but stuffed for display. Once again my power spirit was doubting the fact that us homo sapiens were't the bad guys. All around us, all he saw was homo sapiens going in and out, examining the coastal birds. He saw no one else, which lead him to think that us homo sapiens are liars. He actually thought that I lied to him. For a second, he didn't trust me. He was in a state of confusion. He didn't know why us homo sapiens would do this to other animals. To him, this was the cruelest act of all. "Why can't we just let them rest in peace?" he says.

Last, but not least was in the 4th floor, where research about how the Drosophila flies offer clues about how behavior evolves. Displayed was research on their stages of courtship between a Drosophila suzukii (male) and the Drosophila cyrtolom (female). This didn't spark anything within my spirit animal yet, but once he saw that actual Droosphila flies were pinned down and magnifying glasses were used to let us homo sapiens examine them, rage erupted from my spirit. Now he won't listen to anything I say. I was uncontrollable at this point. Now the spirit inside of me has concluded that us homo sapiens are the scientists that cause pain to animals. "Experimenting on animals is wrong," my spirit blurts out.

Based on our adventure, I learned that the relationship between animals and homo sapiens are far from being close to each other. What us homo sapiens think is a advancement and betterment to society, in the eyes of animals, they see of as the criminals that cause suffering and torture to their kind. In the eyes of my spirit animal, he believe that us homo sapiens are too curious and thinks we should just let things be; let natural selection and evolution take it's toll. Due to this adventure and due to the feelings I felt from my spirit cat, I believe that in the future, the relationship between animals and humans will only worsen if we don't put an end to our research.



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