Fairy tales and hairy tales - how Beauty and the Beast plays out in a case from the real world. Above, Whistling Kite in the sky low over part of Town Common Conservation Park in Townsville. Not often that kites in flight present so prettily for a photographer.
More often it's an underview, in this case two looks - right and left. Beauty! But this was just one of six birds hanging about the area.
Which is, of course, where the Beast comes in. Maybe two beasts, depending on how one regards the actions leading to the presence of six Whistling Kites. Be warned the image below is not a pretty sight.
The beast is a feral boar without its head, sliced off by a hunter. And though Queensland Parks and Wildlife rangers routinely trap and kill wild pigs in the Common and other state and national parks - because of the great habitat damage they can do - private hunting is, within my knowledge, not allowed.
The hunter may be doing the park a service of sorts, may even be showing considerable courage, since no dog or vehicle tracks marked the scene, but the scene remains, for me, one of beastly unlawfulness.
So, why show it? Perhaps because Beauty is not whole without the Beast . . .
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