Entelodonts and Evolution

I just watched National Geographic's Prehistoric Predators, the entelodont episode and it was interesting because the entelodont was essentially a predatory species of pig. Like my mythical starfers, it was a hooved predator and that's fascinating, particularly when you consider how a predator with hooves would have to hunt, being unable to grip its prey with its claws. To me, entelodonts are even kind of beautiful with the way they looked, though they're described as ugly 'pigs from hell' and 'terminator pigs' for their rather badass anatomy. These were some really unique predators, not unlike us for their originality in existence! However, watching this and hearing the theory of this fascinating animal's demise, there is a clear moral and that is that in order to survive extinctions, animals must evolve in new ways. The entelodont attempted to survive by making itself get bigger, but that did not work, because evolution threw them the wild card of the bear dog, a species that while smaller, could do everything an entelodont could do and do it better. Bear dogs were also smarter than entelodonts and faster runners, able to hunt in packs, so when push came to shove, they were the end of the world for the entelodonts.

To say it clear, the moral of the story is is that evolution is an arms race and if your arms aren't the best, you're dead but also, if your food source is removed, you will also die. I believe that we humans need to pay attention to this; yes, we are omnivores and we can eat anything, but if our conciousness does not shift soon, if we do not evolve, we will not survive to the next era. I think what we need to do, is shake off the mantle of instinct; it controls so much of what we do, from giving us the impulse to be curious about babies when we previously disliked them as adolescents to the male desire to mate, and mate a lot. The problem with humans mating, is that we're nearly as prolific as rabbits and there's already too damn many of us on this planet for it to support us. We need to stop being selfish about our rampant reproducing and we need to educate ourselves as well as our neighbours more strongly about the effects we have on the environment. We need to evolve. We need to be thoughtful.