Reading "The Story of Deer and Wolf"

"If anyone tells a lie, then the wolf will eat him." A kind old grandmother is telling a story to her grandson. The little grandson looks at his grandmother with his big eyes and his mouth open and says, "Why didn't you kill the wolf before it came?" and this is with the early 20th century. The idea of ​​US President Theodore Roosevelt is similar.

That is a surprising thing. In 1917, there was a very beautiful Kaibab forest in the northern part of Arizona, where more than 4,000 cute deer were found in the forest, but the ferocious wolves in the forest often hunted them. People were very worried about the lovely The deer will die out as a result. Theodore Roosevelt, then president of the United States, wanted to protect the deer in the forest, so he invited the hunter to kill almost all the wolves in the forest after 25 years of hunting. The wolf is gone, but there are terrible things in the forest - the deer that grows day by day is constantly eating the resources in the forest, the forest is ruined and unrecognizable, and the resources that can be eaten are running low. Soon, the number of deer that was hungry without food was reduced from more than 100,000 to more than 40,000, and then they were greeted by the disease. By 1942, less than 8,000 sick deer had been left in the damaged forest.

Why is this so? It is because the proud human beings always judge things by their own subjective consciousness, and think that the wolf is a cruel animal and should be hunted. No? Whether it is the "grey wolf" in China or the "Little Red Riding Hood" in the West, does it not always say that a wolf is always a bad animal bullying a weak? The deer in the fairy tale always stands for kindness, wearing a beautiful aura on the head. Was the American president at that time not hunting the wolves based on such consciousness? After reading this text, I was a little surprised. Because in the story I read normally, the wolf is evil in our memory. I can't wait to kill them soon. But after reading this text, my thoughts have changed...

In order to protect the deer, people call the hunter to kill the wolf. The hunters eliminated all the wolves in the forest. But what I didn't expect was that the deer not only did not have better breeding and living, but instead ate all the plants in the forest and died without food.

I found that in real life, animals are not good or bad. Perhaps you have seen some fairy tales and legends, where wolves are symbols of sin, those herbivores are good incarnations... but you are wrong, all animals are necessary to maintain ecological balance, not everything The only thing to say is that God has closed a door for you, but it will definitely open a window for you. Everything has its two sides.

In our lives, we always think that wolves are cruel incarnations, and deer are incarnations of kindness. However, Theodore Roosevelt, and all of us have never thought about the relationship of the biological chain. For example, if we kill all the pests, then frogs, snakes, and other animals that use worms as predators are not going to be extinct? The frog, the snake is extinct, the eagle, the eagle, the bullfrog, isn't it going to be extinct? The biological chain is ring-bound, so both deer and wolves are needed in the forest.

Sixth grade: Cheng Junyi