Many of our parkland animals are targets of tirades from visitor opinions. Squirrels, deer, snakes, and birds, are among the wildlife that is scrutinized. Particularly hard hit are coyotes. Animals do what animals do. Animals don't tally.
Animals just do.
We are the only ones keeping score, using a judgment of values, a Court of Animalia , so to speak. Consider now on trial, the ichneumon fly. As a member of the wasp group, the ichneumon must have been the inspirational bad-girl of Ridley Scott's movie, Alien . As a zoology student's introduction to parasitism, it was hard for me not to view the ichneumon as a study in good vs. evil, the vanquished and the villain. The ichneumon, like the Alien, implants its egg into a living host.