The Pope participated in a really nice event where young children released a couple of innocent pure white doves as a beautiful symbol of peace.\u00a0 Almost immediately a large crow and a seagull saw the doves and attacked.\u00a0 Both doves appear to have survived the initial assault and flew off into the sunset.\u00a0 If these were true doves, they are probably dead now.\u00a0 That is because doves raised by humans don\u2019t have the skill set to survive in the wild.\u00a0 In addition, being pure white makes for pretty pictures but it also makes the doves a target that even a crow and a seagull couldn\u2019t resist.\u00a0 The next time they will probably be attacked by a more skilled predator than a crow or a seagull.<\/p>\n
By the way, wild doves are almost never pure white.\u00a0 So odds are these doves were from a breeder.\u00a0 This probably didn\u2019t end well for the doves.<\/p>\n
Sometimes when doves are released they aren\u2019t really doves, they are homing pigeons.\u00a0 That actually is more humane, because the homing pigeons circle a few times and then fly home for dinner.\u00a0 In most cases this strategy prevents them from becoming dinner.<\/p>\n
In many ways this dove release is an apt description of the real world.\u00a0 While we all would love to think of a world where gentle creatures can just all get along with peace and love, that ignores reality.\u00a0 In the real world there are real predators and if someone bigger and stronger is not around to provide protection the innocent get devoured.<\/p>\n
It still was a very heartwarming scene, at least until the crow and the seagull got involved.<\/p>\n
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The Pope participated in a really nice event where young children released a couple of innocent pure white doves as a beautiful symbol of peace.\u00a0 Almost immediately a large crow and a seagull saw the doves and attacked.\u00a0 Both doves … Continue reading