An Evolutionary Dead End?

According to an article in 'The Times' today, 343 adults were injured falling out of trees in the UK last year. As if that statistic alone doesn't show that a fair number of the members of the human race are a few pictures short of an album, 43 of them were pensioners; wisdom comes with age - I think not. More interestingly, 21 people ended up in Casualty because of accidents involving pyjamas - nasty vicious stuff, nightwear, turns on you when you least expect it.

Some animals have no choice when it comes to injury. They suffer as a result of human selfishness. An example; A precise figure for the number of swans and wildfowl injured by fishing tackle in Britain is not known but is thought to be at least 2000 a year. Does that sound reasonable? And is it avoidable? Unfortunately I don't think so, not if we can't get one leg into a pair of pyjama bottoms without falling over. Still a bit of evolution to go yet, I think.

(Apologies to Bob for yet another bird picture)