Natural Morality

Doing my rounds at the flats tonight, I caught a bit of a nature programme about the desert. It was totally baffling how many different creatures managed to survive in that bleak, thirsty environment. Perhaps that's some kind of profound metaphor. Perhaps not.

There were also these massive white spiders: the male would travel up to 2 kilometers across the sands to find a mate, then tap out a specific rhythm on the ground with its legs to signal to the female that he was ready to mate. If he got the rhythm right, she'd understand and they'd have little spidery babies together. (yeuch). In the case captured on the film, he unfortunately forgot the rhythm of "Born to Breed" and mistakenly tapped out "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", at which she promptly jumped out of the sand and ate him.