I Started Watching Planet Earth

Today, my boyfriend (Diego) and I began watching Planet Earth II on Netflix.

After watching the anime series Devilman Crybaby, we needed a serious spiritual booster. So we let ourselves fall into the embrace of Sir David Attenborough's deep, narrative voice as he began showing off a series of adorable creatures in Madagascar.

My favorite critter was probably the lemur. They were such cute little guys who did nothing wrong. In particular, I adored the glimpse of the sweet Bamboo Lemur, which hid behind a little throng of bamboo stems.

Cuddled up to Diego, it was very nice to see cute animals being happy. But then things started going pretty south and oh my goodness.

Now, first we touched base on Komodo dragons, which I loved to call big, burly babies. They were huge--about eight feet in length and weighing at 200 pounds--but the way they walked was actually adorable. Due to all of their bulk, in order to walk, their whole body sort of sways left and right. It's like watching a tubby lizard grazing after a big meal.

BUT THEN we got to the sea iguanas and oh my gosh. They were total badasses, perched on a huge rock and diving into the water to eat off of the ocean floor and then swimming back up with the use of their powerful tails. But rather than focusing on the adults, we (the audience) were panned to the baby hatchlings just coming out from beneath the sand for the first time.

They tried to run. They really did. But most of them were strangled and eaten by an entanglement of countless snakes.

I know it's the food chain. I know it's simply how the world goes round. But you know, life is too hard. I'm sorry baby iguanas.

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