Club That Seal!
Homo sapiens sapiens is the most devastating predator the earth has ever seen. Our habitat covers a more diverse range of conditions than that of any other species. We have no claws, only laughable teeth, and are, pound for pound, one of the weakest members of the class Mammalia; yet, so deadly are we as a group that we must legislatively restrict our hunting activities lest we easily drive to extinction any species we wish (witness international prohibitions against whaling and national prohibitions against killing wolves). It is a testament to our lethality, and potentially to our ruthlessness, that we are the only surviving example of the genus Homo. By contrast, there are hundreds of species of sharks (organized across eight different orders), three extant species of elephants (and many more extinct species), and even two different species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes and Pan paniscus). I say the following in the biological sense, not as any kind of political imperative: we are conquerors, born and bred. Killing is a central tenet of what it means to be human. And so, the time has once again come for one of my favorite annual events: Hyperlink! Club that seal!