mindlessness
or is it ignorance?
There was a small home, there was some hope. Then came the half-baked knowledge of humans.
If the evolution has put the chemicals in place to record the series of acts for a Nightjar, it would have found itself making an impression of the series of events as one man came, a fire followed soon after and the man came again with clickety sound… Till it finds itself capable of distinguishing individuals, it might probably have impression of fire followed by a human…
Darn God knows how many such homes got destroyed… getting destroyed… how many hopes…!!