Darwin in Action?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwftls-HiK4

  No disrespect to rodeo clowns but is this wise?​ This looks to be injury waiting to happen here​. I wonder if these are local goofs or pros. They look like local kids. 
 
Having worked for a year as #2 on a kill line in a slaughterhouse with no room to move, I can attest that big angry animals leave little margin for error. 

A more obvious example of Darwin in Action?

Speaking of Rodeo clowns, Tim Gallagher has a well written profile on Rodeo Clown and falconer Shawn Hayes.

Everything Shawn does is tied up with his career in the rodeo or directly supported by it. His other great love is falconry—training birds of prey to hunt with him. The money he earns through rodeo, and the seasonal nature of the work, enables him to lead a falconer’s dream life in the off-season. He spends months each fall and winter traveling across the West with his two trained falcons in the back of his truck, in search of grouse, ducks, and other prey for them to hunt. And as a falconer, he has few equals. He is a connoisseur in the sport, who flies only the finest birds, trained to perfection to hunt the most challenging quarries in North America. If he had to turn to a conventional 9-to-5 job to earn money, his falconry would be over.

Tim Gallagher on Rodeo Clown Shawn Hayes

Blogging will be light for a few days as I head back to the woods.

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