Witness to the high intelligence of a pacifist
confronted by an impudent mischief-maker
two opposites of the animal kingdom, one
observant and patient the other impulsive and
entitled. A casual confrontation, a theatre of
provocation and indulgence met by a wiser head.
Shades of Konrad Lorenz in tandem with Aesop.
A crow engaged with an indistinguishable object
of gustatory interest, interrupted by a small
red squirrel giving chase to access the object while
the bird moved a slight distance to watch. With
no reaction to the rude interruption the squirrel
lost interest and drifted off while the crow resumed
efficiently pecking at the prize and the squirrel
returned, officiously nudging the crow which
obligingly once again hopped a short distance only
to see the squirrel befuddled with little interest in the
challenged object wandering dejectedly off so
the crow once again took possession of the prize.
If there is a moral to the pantomime neither shared
it with the curious onlooker, none the wiser.
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