CHRIS ROPER: When seals and human stupidity intersect
Recent seal attacks in South Africa are symptomatic of the tensions that arise when people and wild animals are in close contact. They’re also an object lesson in human stupidity
12 January 2023 - 05:00
As we enter a new year, let us remind ourselves of one of the immutable, and perhaps comforting, laws of nature: stupidity is its own reward. And it only took three days of 2023 for our fellow humans to once again prove the truism.
One of the fun things about writing a regular column is that, every now and then, you produce one that seems to really resonate, and that people remember for a long time. In 2005 — 18 years ago! — I wrote one for News24 that some long-forgotten subeditor decided to title “You can Tuna Fish, but not a Seal”, and someone resurfaced it this week. ..
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