Wild about Animal Life

A healthy ecosystem is considered sustainable.  But there are so many ways one can define healthy and ecosystem and sustainable.  I feel as though most of my blog entries have been attempts at defining a widely used ecological term.  And I’m sick of it!  I could write about how I define sustainable but I think my definition of the term is still evolving and I am unready to put into words.  Beyond the actual definition for sustainable, there are so many parameters needed to clarify the boundaries of what is considered sustainable.  What is the time frame being considered when deciding if a system is sustainable? What size area is considered part of the same ecosystem? And… (more).  Instead I want this week’s blog to be more laid back.  I study ecology because the world around me fascinates me.  Nature, our environment, is breathtaking.  I hope to understand as much about life as possible and I wish to enjoy it.  I want to live, feel, and experience it.

So this week I was walking home from a speech with a friend when I thought about how many verbs are also animal names.  I figure it’ll be fun to write a whole bunch of those sorts of sentences. 

When someone throws a projectile at your head, duck!

Many insecure children buffalo their peers so as to feel better about themselves.

My purse was such a mess it was difficult to ferret out my cell phone when it rang.

Don’t chicken out from fear of failure.

See what you can come up with.