Recently I calculated my life expectancy. (87) What I should have been calculating was life expectancy for lambs. I went out the other morning and discovered that one was now deceased. Typical woolly idiot. Somewhere in the early hours he’d climbed through the fence and couldn’t work out how to get back to his mum. No warm milk, no warm mum, over a freezing minus three degree night and he’d died. Sigh. And I wondered too, if lambs have been doing such stupid things since they evolved, how come they aren’t getting brighter. Going on Darwin’s Law, isn’t weeding out the reckless and the dumb supposed to improve the genome? You couldn’t tell that by sheep then again, It’s probably better not, otherwise we’d be the ones out in the paddock.
Exasperation and Lambs
22 August 2015
Recently I calculated my life expectancy. (87) What I should have been calculating was life expectancy for lambs. I went out the other morning and discovered that one was now deceased. Typical woolly idiot. Somewhere in the early hours he’d climbed through the fence and couldn’t work out how to get back to his mum. No warm milk, no warm mum, over a freezing minus three degree night and he’d died. Sigh. And I wondered too, if lambs have been doing such stupid things since they evolved, how come they aren’t getting brighter. Going on Darwin’s Law, isn’t weeding out the reckless and the dumb supposed to improve the genome? You couldn’t tell that by sheep then again, It’s probably better not, otherwise we’d be the ones out in the paddock.