"Cada uno de nosotros proyecta una sombra tanto más oscura y compacta
cuanto menos encarnada se halle en nuestra vida consciente. Esta sombra
constituye, a todos los efectos, un impedimento inconsciente que malogra
nuestras mejores inteciones."
C. G. JUNG
"... El simbolismo, por supuesto, es que los osos polares dependen casi totalmente del medio ambiente marino del hielo marino para su supervivencia, y año tras año, temperaturas en aumento están reduciendo la cantidad de la capa de hielo y la cantidad de tiempo disponible para los osos para cazar mamíferos marinos".
The world in our hands award Winner: Ice matters by Anna Henly (UK) Anna was on a boat in Svalbard an archipelago midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole when she saw this polar bear at around four in the morning. It was October, and the bear was walking on broken-up ice floes, seemingly tentatively, not quite sure where to trust its weight. She used her fisheye lens to make the enormous animal appear diminutive and create an impression of the top predator on top of the planet, with its ice world breaking up . The symbolism, of course, is that polar bears rely almost entirely on the marine sea ice environment for their survival, and year by year, increasing temperatures are reducing the amount of ice cover and the amount of time available for the bears to hunt marine mammals Photograph: Anna Henly/2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Behaviour: mammals Winner: Practice run by Grégoire Bouguereau (France) When a female cheetah caught but didn't kill a Thomson's gazelle calf and waited for her cubs to join her, Gregoire guessed what was about to happen. He'd spent nearly a decade studying and photographing cheetahs in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, and he knew that the female s behaviour meant one thing: a hunting lesson was due to begin. The female moved away, leaving the calf lying on the ground near her cubs. At first, the cubs took no notice of it. But when it struggled jerkily to its feet the cubs natural predatory instincts were triggered, says Gregoire. Each cub gaze locked on to the calf as it made a break for freedom. The lesson repeated itself several times, with the cubs ignoring the calf when it was on the ground and catching it whenever it tried to escape an exercise that affords the cubs the chance to practise chases in preparation for when they will have to do so for real.
Punto y aparte. Reflexión personal: ¿Puede un ciervo volverse depredador? ¿Puede el depredador volverse ciervo? No es la razón lo que nos diferencia de los animales salvajes, es el poder de elección. El elegir, la elección de comportarte como silvestre o humano; elegir es la diferencia que nos sitúa, se dice, en el pináculo de los seres vivos. Elegir el seguir ignorante de nuestros defectos o elegir el tomar conciencia de ello y hacer un esfuerzo por ser mejor. Mientras no utilice la capacidad de elegir conscientemente, permaneceré en el reino animal en detrimento de la armonía y la sociedad a la que pertenezco.
Elan Aguilar
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