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I’ve come face-to-face with raccoons, water deer, and wild boars.
But aren’t birds wild too?
The birds we see every single day are just as wild,
yet they’re denied the label “wild animal”
simply because they’re too common.
In the woods beside my home, crows also live.
They are undeniably wild,
and yet no one ever calls them that.
So in the end, maybe “wild animal”
is just another badge
handed out according to the rankings humans invented.
They’re all simply living
in their own ways, in their own time,
and perhaps it’s only humans
who feel the need to split them into
rare and unique.
For them, the wild world is probably
nothing more than a stark, simple map:
predator
and prey.
If that’s true,
then in their eyes,
into which tier,
into which class,
would humans fall?
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