It's just another day ...

Sounded better when the Beatles used to sing it - but I'm not on a history tack today.

I see where an eagle in Australia was reported to have "tried to snatch a kid" at a wildlife show in Alice Springs. The boy was scratched/cut but suffered no major injury.

Although a bystander reported the young boy had been persistently pulling his hood and zip up and down, which seemed to "confuse" the eagle, it does make you wonder what we do for fun. Taking children to watch wild animals (eagles) "hunting". These eagles used to be shot on sight by farmers because they like to carry off and eat live lambs.

Now why would we bring a mammal about the size of their favourite food to one of these eagles while it is hunting? To an eagle, I suppose one snack (lamb) is about as good as another (child in hoodie). Aren't we, as a race, bad enough with people killing each other because they are "different" - another colour, worship a different (invisible and unmeasurable) force/being in a different building/on a different day/using a different format? Now we are reduced to teasing wild animals, and are shocked when they do what they evolved to do.

If we can't figure out what is good or bad, let us wait for the US presidential election, or the Brexit train to arrive: if things are bad now, they'll probably get worse then. But let us try to keep young children away from wild animals that would like to eat them - or stop them playing with an annoying zipper.