A commentary on the text The Tale of the Deer and the Wolf .

A beautiful essay on ecological balance:

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Kaibab Forest in northern Arizona was still lush and vibrant. There are about 4,000 deer in the forest, and the vicious and cruel wolf is the great enemy of the deer.

Theodore Roosevelt wanted to protect the deer in the Kaibab Forest and breed more. He declared the Kaibab Forest a national hunting reserve and decided to hire hunters to go there to exterminate the wolves.

Gunfire in the forest**. Under the cold muzzle of the hunter's gun, the wolf let out a series of screams and whined for his life. After 25 years of hunting, more than 6,000 wolves have been killed. Other wild animals (leopards) in the forest that feed on deer are also hunted a lot.

Specially protected deer have become the "darlings" of the Kaibab forest. In this "kingdom of freedom", they grow and breed freely, eat trees freely, and live a happy life without danger and with plenty of food.

Soon, the number of deer in the forest increased, and the total number exceeded 100,000. More than 100,000 deer gnaw in the east of the forest, and when the bushes are eaten up, they eat the small trees, and the small trees eat the bark ..... of the big treesEverything that can be eaten by deer is doomed.

The green vegetation in the forest is decreasing day by day, and the yellowing of the earth is expanding day by day.

Disaster has finally befallen the deer. First starvation caused a large number of deer to die, and then there was an epidemic of disease, and countless deer disappeared. Two years later, the total number of deer in the herd increased from 100,000?

Reduced to 40,000. By 1942, there were fewer than 8,000 sick deer left in the entire Kaibab forest.

Roosevelt could never have imagined that the wolf he ordered to hunt was actually the protector of the forest! Although wolves eat deer, it maintains a stable population of deer. This is because, after the wolf eats some deer, the total number in the forest can be controlled to a reasonable level, and the forest will not be spoiled beyond recognition by the deer herd.

At the same time, most of the deer eaten by wolves are sick deer, which effectively controls the threat of disease to the deer herd. And the deer that Roosevelt was determined to protect, once the number exceeds the limit that the forest can bear, will destroy the stability of the forest ecosystem and bring great ecological disaster to the forest. That is, too many deer can be the main culprits for the destruction of the forest.

This seems to contradict what people know about wolves and deer. In any ethnic group, in all fairy tales with animal themes, wolves almost always bear the notoriety of bullying the weak, such as the story of the "big bad wolf" in China and the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" in the West. Deer, on the other hand, are almost always the embodiment of beauty and kindness.

The wolf is **, so it must be destroyed; Deer are kind, so be protected. Roosevelt's policy of protecting the deer herd was based on this customary view and the principles of fairy tales.

This series of stories in the Kaibab Forest shows that different creatures living on the same earth are mutually conditioned and interconnected, and that judging the good and evil of animals based on their own one-sided understanding can sometimes make serious mistakes. Both deer and wolves are needed in the forest. One must respect this interrelationship between animals and the biological world as a whole.

Wolves eat deer just to survive, and deer eat grass to survive, and all living things just do what they have to do in their lives, just like us humans, don't we eat meat for the sake of poor animals? Impossible, people can't do without meat, because the human body needs the protein in meat, and in the same way, human beings can't change nature, human beings must respect nature, and all creatures created by nature have certain laws, that is, the food chain - wolves eat deer, deer eat grass, this chain is interdependent and indispensable, and should play a certain role in their existence. If this food chain is disrupted, nature will be out of balance, and one day, the consequences will be unpredictable!

In the same way, human beings are equal to each other, and each human existence has a necessary role. Since nature created him, then the world needs him, the society needs him, and everyone has its role, so we can't despise any of them, because they - whether they are disabled or the elderly, they all have their own role!

Let's do our part for the society and the balance of nature, and work hard to do our part of the work!

The last paragraph:

This series of stories that took place in the Kaibab Forest illustrates that different organisms living on the same planet are mutually conditioned and interconnected. Judging the good and evil of animals based on only human beings' own one-sided understanding can sometimes make serious mistakes. Both deer and wolves are needed in the forest.

One must respect this interrelationship between animals and the biological world as a whole.

Experience: I found that in real life, there is no such thing as a good or bad animal. Maybe you've seen fairy tales and legends where wolves are symbols of sin and herbivores are the embodiment of goodness......But you are wrong, all animals are necessary to maintain ecological balance, not everything is unique, as the saying goes:

God has closed a door for you, but He will surely open a window for you. Everything has its two sides, we can't pursue absolute good and bad in everything, we should see its bad and also take into account the objective good side. In this way, we can face anyone and everything objectively and rationally, and calmly make decisions about our future path.

Here's how: at the beginning of the 20th century, there were about 4,000 wild deer in the Kaibab Forest in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, and they were accompanied by packs of wolves, threatening the survival of the deer. For the sake of the tranquility of these deer, in 1906, the United States decided to carry out a wolf eradication operation, and by 1930 more than 6,000 wolves had been shot.

The wolf is nowhere to be seen in the Kaiba Burlin district. So the deer began to give birth there without any worries and "unplanned", and soon the number of deer grew to more than 100,000. Thriving deer eat all edible plants, eat up weeds, destroy forests, and reduce the number of other animals that feed on plants, leaving the herd suffering from hunger and disease.

By 1942, the number of deer in the Kaibab Forest had dropped to 8,000, and the majority of them were sick and weak, and the once-thriving deer family was in sharp decline. This backfires because the wolf has been exterminated. On the one hand, wolves prey on some deer, so that the total number of deer is controlled, so that they do not reproduce to the extent that they degrade vegetation; On the other hand, most of the deer preyed on by wolves are old, weak, sick and disabled, which helps the survival of the fittest and the succession of deer herds. On the other hand, the deer is often in a state of escape under the chase of wolves, which promotes the robust development of the deer.

Since the wolf disappeared, the deer had no natural predators, the "lazy man" was weak, and the deer herd degenerated. In order to save the evil consequences of wolf extermination, the United States formulated a plan to "lure wolves into the house" in the 70s of the last century. However, this plan was opposed by some people and was not implemented in time.

With the increase in people's awareness of the environment, the "Bringing Wolves into the House" program was finally implemented in 1995. The first wild wolves were released from Canada into the Rocky Mountains, and the forest was full of life. There are several different aspects of a thing, and good and evil are relative and homogeneous!

There must be good and evil, and human beings cannot impose human views on the lives of animals!

As the saying goes, one thing descends to one thing, the five elements of yin and yang are mutually reinforcing, and the ripples of living things are endless!

In the Kaibab Forest in northern Arizona, 4,000 deer roam the forest, and the deer's great enemy, the --- wolf, lives there. In the United States, Roosevelt had to exterminate the vicious wolves in order to protect the beautiful deer. After twenty-five years of hunting, about 6,000 wolves were killed.

The deer were devoid of enemies and multiplied rapidly, numbering more than 100,000 individuals, and it didn't take long for these deer to nibble away from the Kaibab forest. Without sufficient food, the deer fell ill after suffering from a great famine. By 1942, the total number of deer had plummeted to 8,000, and all of them were weakened and barely survived.

The text uses Roosevelt's order to exterminate wolves in order to protect the deer as an example, which led to a huge ecological disaster, illustrates the principle of mutual constraints and interconnection between different organisms, and warns people that they must respect this cameo law in the biological world.

The United States protected the deer herd and hunted the wolves, but it ended in failure.