7/22/2011

The Amazon Beaver Mafia

One day on a "field trip" in Geography class our teacher was talking about trees. I actually have no clue as to how it got to this but Henry brought up the question of what would happen if beavers were to all of a sudden migrate to the Amazon Rain Forest. Only Henry could have come up with this solution.

  • The beavers would form alliances with a certain kind of tree, ensuring it's survival.
  • The beaver would then proceed to cut down all the neighboring trees to it's own tree to clear the canopy and allow it's tree unadulterated access to the soil's nutrients and the sun's light.
  • In return the tree will provide shelter and safety for it's beaver. I'm assuming it would kinda dig a hole into the side and live in it like a squirrel.
  • Somehow the tree will provide sexual favors for the beaver, which after knowing Henry for 4 or 5 years I would assume involves the knots in the bark of the tree and holes.
If this were to actually happen the Amazon Rain Forest would be pretty screwed. The protection from the trees would make it near impossible for a predator to touch the beaver (maybe they'll evolve to look something like the ents from LOTR...actually no in that case they wouldn't need the beavers anymore...) so the beaver would become an unstoppable clear cutting forestry machine.

If we could get those two groups to cooperate I was thinking maybe we could sell the idea to McDonalds or something so they could do their rain forest raping a lot more efficiently, while Henry and I could be swimming in an Olympic sized pool of cash and burritos. Then again, it could mess up the entire planet's ecosystems since the rain forest is gone...

Nah, burritos are way cooler.



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