Tumamoc Again

Tumamoc Hill has about as much wildlife as one can hope to see in southern Arizona—in the form of signs along the trail informing you of all the other animals the area was once teeming with. One thing I've noticed on all my hikes in Arizona, even the ones not in the city, is the tragic utter paucity of fauna. This can be laid at the feet of that most invasive bipedal species, Homo sapiens sapiens, a most rapacious primate—a species so smart as to have bred themselves into a position to end an eponymously-named geologic era: the Anthropocene. Great job, primates, you win!

This is where it all started, with farming. Fast forward a few thousand years and voila: the sixth great extinction.

Extreme irony, this.