In Romantic art, Transcendentalist musings, hippie fantasies and New Age faux spiritualism, nature is painted as benign, its contemplation both nurturing and redemptive. Not so, according to party-pooping Darwinists. These hard-nosed realists decipher nature to be fundamentally violent, "red in tooth and claw", where the danger of violent death, or, worse, being eaten alive, lurks everywhere, as this freshwater crab found out in a no-holds-barred duel with a flesh-sucking tiger leech:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkw6WMuFsL8
