Whilst exploring my general subject i began thinking about the various "cycles" in life and started with the obvious -
Life and Death
Death is generaly feared and thought of very negatively. Although with death comes life because we kill to eat, survive and ,in death, something fuels life. The same applies to dying vegitation which then decomposes and aids the soil. So with all these ideas of life and death floating around my head I remembered watching a documentary on channel 4, (you can also watch it here http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-elephant-life-after-death) about how the corpse of an elephant provides food etc. for so many animals. The programme was called
"The Elephant: Life after Death"
It's a really interesting documentary that started out just like any ordinary informative show with the usual plain facts about elephants like that a five-ton elephant amounts to “six million calories of meat, fat and guts. I certainly didnt know that, so it had already done its job to be fair. Although as it delved deeper and longer into the time the elaphant had been dead things started to get truely bizarre such as a hyena feasting on the elephants anus. Its amazing to see just exactly happened to the corpse because it's something, well i personaly, wouldn't think twice of yet theres a whole world of life that feeds off one elephant that has lost it's life.
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