Elephants raping rhinos? You don't see that everyday on the Discovery Channel. Of your other examples, the Steve Irwin situation was one thing, but this poor woman in Woodburn was just going outside her office to get her mail. Not exactly provoking the wild kingdom, was it? I don't know what that incident means but it's another good reason to rely on email. Don't you hate it when these animals don't cooperate with our #1 ranking on the species list? If I didn't know better I'd say Mother Nature was starting to view humans as an infestation that must be taken down. Maybe it'll be a bird-flu like virus that culls the human herd but it's probably going to happen. These episodes are like the canary biting the miner's hand on the way into the mine shaft. My favorite was the women and children having a picnic at a university campus in Florida. This alligator sprinted out of a nearby pond, grabbed the picnic basket, and took off.

Man, I love South Park.

We need to get tough on animal crime.

Uh oh, it's an election-year animal revolt.

Don't lock the cats in the basement. They may realize you're on to them and rig your furnace to explode.

Remember, cats may have nine lives but you don't - and they know it.

I'm always for the animals and delight in seeing the rodeo action-vignettes with bulls stomping the bejesus of a their tormetors. It's one of the few venues in which we see justice meted out swiftly to miscreants and villians.

The message is very, very clear: This is a war against homo sapiens, and we need to stay the course in our quest to thrash nature into submission.

If we give up now, the animals will have already won.