The predator-prey relationships we see in the world provide a remarkably creative display of different forms of animal death. Some are trapped by predators, others are poisoned, still others are scavenged, and countless other creative ways of consuming creatures can be found in the natural world.
Some 72,000,000,000 animals and fish were killed and consumed by humans in the last year for food and animal products.
Amazingly, that number pales in comparison with the number of animals that die as food for their predators or as food for scavengers in any given year. Yet the world continues to see an abundance of living creatures living in ecosystems that allow for life and replenishment on a grand scale.
Do we ever take this abundance for granted?