The POTW: Verse Til It Hurts

Though I myself am not particularly dangerous to any animal not already residing in a supermarket cooler, I am stunned whenever a supposedly wild creature, especially a small one, demonstrates disregard for my presence. I would think that a fear of humans, or indeed of any beast having more than twenty times your body mass, would continue to be a survival characteristic. And so, an addition to the POTW menagerie:

Copyright © 2011 by Dave Grossman

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