"No, no, no, a thousand times no. Hognose snakes have no idea that they look or sound like somehting else or even that they look scary. I assure you if you take a hognose egg and put in a box until it hatches, when you open the box it will very likely puff up and hiss. It has evolved that preprogrammed response to perceived danger. It's possible/probable that that trait was beneficial and therefore passed on because it fooled predators, but it has nothing to do with any conscious calculation by the snake."
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If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals. - Isaac Asimov
Human industry has been in full swing for a little over a century, yet it has brought about a decline in almost every ecosystem on the planet. Nature doesn't have a design problem. People do.
William McDonough, architect and designer, Sierra Club magazine
