The article titled “Croaking for life…” on Herald, Sunday the 31st May, made interesting reading. Interesting because it was liken to a speech by politicians, wherein the writer has conveniently blamed the poaching by humans as the cause of the decrease in the number of frogs and downplayed the prime factor conveniently. May I ask the writer if there are no more green fields, no ponds no water tanks remaining, all land filled for builders lobby; forests depleted and land made barren; where are the frogs going to breed? In the stagnant gutters or the potholes on tarmac? And where does he expect them to live, in the ‘mega-projects’? There is more breeding ground for mosquitoes than for the frog in Goa. And to state that mosquitoes have increase because of diminished frog population is insane, as no frog is going to travel from its greenfield surroundings to your concrete jungle to lap your mosquitoes. Such biased writing amounts to irresponsibility and ignorance of frog habitat and breeding. Human beings are born with instinct to love and protect one another, and love for animals is secondary. Watch children grow or see the tiny tots in school. When human grow into adults and their ‘superego’ takes over, and when they have hostile past experiences and start hating other humans or vice-versa; it is then that they turn to be animal lovers by default. They can even take their pretentious animal love to the extent of grooming their children to hate humans. A typical example is the notorious “hate speech” of last elections. Look at the Human rights and Civil liberties violation taking place on youth at Satari just for the sake of a tiger presumably killed at Keri which was definitely not executed by a youth. Whereas humans killed and thrown by the wayside, or in the water, like in Mahanand’s victims cases; they were unceremoniously closed as ‘unnatural death’. Let me give a piece of advice to all these animal lovers; if you are in dire straits tomorrow it is the humans who’ll reach out to help you and not your animals. Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. _________________________________________________________________ Planning the weekend ? Here’s what is happening in your town. http://msn.asklaila.com/events/
