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By my feet on the sidewalk I noticed a little green grasshopper moving slowly over the cement on its side, kicking it's leg as if it was trying to get up. I grabbed a little twig to help it up until I noticed the ant that was dragging it. It was pulling the injured grasshopper by its face, while another ant showed up and started attacking it's side. My first instinct was to intervene and scare the ants away. I'm my mind, the grasshopper was injured therefore the ants were the antagonists. Then I realized that a grasshopper isn't an easy foe, and it would probably be a good meal for a lot of the ants in the colony. For all I know, those two ants just fought for hours against that grasshopper and only just hurt it enough to drag it home. Who am I to interfere with nature at It's most natural? Spoiler alert, I walked away. I feel kind of bad though, grasshoppers are cool.
should I have intervened?
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Dylis
Yeah, it's the cycle of life... :/
It's good that you could recognize the value of letting the ants have their meal, but I can also see feeling bad for the grasshopper. They are really cool.
It sucks sometimes being such an avid animal lover because you want to intervene and interact with all these cool creatures, but you also know that the best thing to do most of the time is to let nature take its course. Like, I want to feed the birds, hold the lizards, befriend whatever animals I see, but I know rationally that it's unkind to mess with the already delicate balance of our world. Aauuuh...