thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 7月27日 04時57分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety
Rabbit kitten and nettles - Anthropomorphism, the application of human characteristics to animal behaviour, has been a buzz word in wildlife photography for a few years now. It’s unsurprising really, given how with every passing day we learn more and more about our animal cousins, we learn more and more about their remarkably adaptive behaviours and that, much like us humans, they have the same basic needs which have to be fulfilled daily. Food, water and shelter is what we all seek at our most basic, our most primeval level and the absence of either of these three will ultimately lead to our and their demise. We’re also learning more and more about the sentience of other creatures, long dismissed at our convenience as ‘just animals’ that ‘don’t feel pain’. We’re learning more about their capacity to feel joy and conversely terror, comfort or pain. We see now how they can become traumatised, how they mourn and grieve for their lost ones, or the obvious pain that a parent must endure when cruelly separated from their offspring. Ignorance has long been humanity’s most useful ally in our shameful history of animal abuse and exploitation but as this cloud of ignorance is slowly lifted so we are morally and ethically compelled to look again at how we treat our wild cousins. For my own life, my own existence to be realised it has required a perfect, unbroken chain of birth, adaptation, death stretching back 1.6 billion years and whilst my peers and friends might politely disagree, my very existence, the existence of any complex life is a miracle of an almost unimaginable scale. Shouldn’t then the same value, the same basic worth be applied to the life every other living creature because the ancestry of this little rabbit is every bit as long, every bit as awe inducing and every bit as miraculous as our own? Please #followme at @andyparkinsonphoto to keep up-to-date with my images @andyparkinsonphoto @thephotosociety @ナショナルジオグラフィック @natgeocreative #rabbitkitten #nettle #anthropomorphism #ethicsbeforeimages #educateandinspire #nature #naturelovers #wildlife #wildlifephotography #animalsofinstagram #animalbehaviour #UK #wil

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