Animal Instincts

I received a ppt about 7 (or 11?) great virtues to learn from the life of an eagle, and how its much better, honorable and tactful than other birds in its behaviour.

Its amazing how humans imbibe great lessons intended for our consumption, from the survival strategies of another species. Nature can inspire good habits, virtues, works of art and literature and even scientific inventions.

But there was a contradiction somewhere - How can we assert one species being superior to other in terms of human notions of civilised behaviour? Each of them have their own design of varying complexity, a natural code of conduct, mechanism of survival to thrive in its respective environment. Each of them have their set of behaviours to succeed, which only we judge positive or negative, but for them its just their nature.

If you watch carefully, the fight for survival in every possible species

-unicellular protozoa to huge ecosystems like Great Barrier coral reef

-the odd-shaped sea-cucumber to advanced dynamics of the cheetah

-the symbiotic relationships between different species, and the predatory behaviour on the other hand

-the scavenger vultures to the hunter eagles - all of them are just doing their job .... to exist !