I have thought a lot about big animals. And which ones I like, and which ones I don't. I was thinking about cows. They are so ugly and ordinary, and it's hard to see them running and hunting for food. Or how they would ever have fun or make love. It seems to me the Spirit of the world, or whoever or whatever runs this place, brought cows into the world knowing humans would arrive and would use their milk and eat them. They seem to have no other purpose. Most humans take this situation for granted, that cows were made for our ranches. But being green, I have turned away at least from the practice of eating them. When someone says "where's the beef?" I say "it's not on my table" and it's not "what's for dinner."

Then there's alligators and crocodiles. They are big. I thought of them after a while, after thinking about cows. They have the opposite problem. Their only relationship to us humans is to eat us. That's what they do if they are anywhere near us. But if we are quick, we can make leather things out of them. Like belts to hold our pants up, like our minister said we need to do today.

So what big animal do I like? Maybe hippos and rinos. They are content to be ugly and just leave us alone. Or gorillas because they are like us, and are nice.