pond life at the front of my garden hidden away under the frangipani and the ferns a little microcosm environment needs to be maintained. some small creatures get eaten by bigger ones, and they in turn are hunted, the hunter and the hunted, and who exactly is at the top of the food chain?

in pond life everything has a place, self sustaining cycles of life and death, that's nature i guess. sometimes the big predator at the top of the chain is outsmarted by the ones at the bottom. i'm draining the pond, and there at the bottom is a cat collar, hope i don't find the cat. 

other qualities apart from size are necessary, speed, camouflage, intelligence perhaps, a little luck, a bug would not even know there was danger as it settles on the water surface, it would be swallowed hole, its life just a sudden end. i guess the bigger the creature the more chance it has of sensory awareness when it comes to dangers in the environment but for me there's dangers all around, i could slip on the moss that covers the rocks, my head explode as it hits the floor, but my awareness knows this, and animals have awareness, they smell death, danger stalking them and when it comes there is no peace to make.