Oi! Lions! Stop eating that elephant!

I can’t belive this taking point at the BBC:

Should documentary producers intervene in nature?

Should film-makers end the suffering of injured animals?

The BBC’s Planet Earth has sparked debate after members of the crew saved a baby penguin that was trapped down a hole, but did not end the suffering of an injured polar bear.

In the latest episode, viewers were shown groundbreaking footage of an elephant being hunted by a pride of 30 lions, but again no-one intervened.

Do wildlife documentaries go too far? Should the Planet Earth team have saved a baby penguin? Or should they leave animals to die naturally? Send us your comments.

Now maybe it’s just me, but I find the idea that there’s some kind of equality system at play with wild animals laughable, especially as it seems vegetarians take offence at the lions eating habits. But It gets better when people start posting their responses, particularly when ‘what constitutes and animal’ raises its ugly head…

I know nature is cruel, but lions killing an elephant is EXTREMELY unusual. Gazelles etc., die almost immediately. They should have intervened.

Sandra Morton, Nottingham

What do you suggest they should have done? Given the lions a stern lecture on their errant behaviour? Intervening would have been suicide, the lions were starving and wouldn’t think twice about attacking a human. I think they were absolutely right.

[VicolaW], Bury, United Kingdom

Peter_Sym says we are all part of the same ecostructure etc, but I do not see myself as part of the animal kingdom

Scottish Jackie, london, United Kingdom

Then I seriously suggest you get a natural history book and start reading….

Dave Jones, Manchester, United Kingdom

…and I recommend that you get a Holy Bible.I happen to believe that I am NOT an animal. You believe what you like.

Scottish Jackie, london, United Kingdom

Got into the gene pool whilst the lifeguard wasn’t watching, eh?

[FadedApe], London

By the way, can I remind everybody that evolution is a THEORY

..yes and the Bible is just a STORY

AAARRR GGGHHH, Bristol

“By the way, can I remind everybody that evolution is a THEORY. I happen to believe that my great grandfather was Adam, not a monkey.”-Zishan K, Manchester, United Kingdom

By the way, can I remind everybody that ‘The theory of gravity’ is only a theory. No doubt it will one day be revised – oh how we will all laugh! (an float?)

William Gingell, Bollington, United Kingdom

By the way, can I remind everybody that evolution is a THEORY. I happen to believe that my great grandfather was Adam, not a monkey.

Zishan K,

In that case, you can clear something up for me!
Who was your grandmother? Y’see, Adam and Eve only had sons, two of them. One of whom killed the other. That left one son. So who did he marry / procreate with.

I’ve always wondered about that. Now We’ve got one of the family along, you can sort it out!

[tre-cool]

“I happen to believe that my great grandfather was Adam, not a monkey.
Zishan K, Manchester”

How old are you?
Taking the erroneous 16th cent.calculation as correct that makes you some 4000 years old !. Congratulations !

Genesis is an early man’ attempt at explaining the origins of the World and Mankind with the facts available to him at the time. Other religions have similar stories.

My great grandfather was a shoemaker born in 1818. I know for a fact I have seen the evidence for it.

Edward Dowty, Kings Lynn, United Kingdom

Here is something else to boost your sense of humour: if evolution is true, what did the first living organism evolve from then? A rock?

Zishan K, Manchester, United Kingdom

Let’s turn it around: if creationism is true, what did god evolve from? My sense of humour awaits with anticipation…

[FadedApe], London

And my great great (multiplied by appropriate number of times) grandmother is the Goddess Athena, so there! ;-p

[darthturnip]

Your Great Grandmother (multiplied by blah, blah, blah) sold some brilliant posters in the seventies!

Kevin Hamilton, London, United Kingdom