Answering a question

Gladys has been studying orcas in school and came home with a lot of questions. Good librarian that I am, we logged into the World Book Kids online encylopedia and learned interesting things about orcas. She was particularly wanting to know what they eat. We got those answers nicely, but she wanted to know exactly how.

So I thought, let's go onto Youtube and see what we can find.

Lordy, how far school report research has come in the age of the Internet!

We got to witness orcas hunting baby seals with a National Geographic clip. No more musty dry books for us.

On the one hand, there is nothing like actually getting to see the answer to your question. No encylopedia entry can quite capture raw footage. On the other hand, I kept thinking, is this doing some damage to her sensitive 9 year old spirit? Then I counterargued that this is the planet Earth and how animals live and die, everyday. We do much worse things by chomping down on murdered cows and chickens, filled with antibiotics due to inhumane conditions.

Anway, we were both fascinated and horrified by the whole spectacle.