Sunday, August 25, 2013

Animals Are More Human Than Humans

I was on a desert hike today, and when I walked through a patch of land there was a flurry of an electric sounding buzzes coming from the brush. I thought it may have been bees at first, but it was some type of beetle that was sending an alert to the other beetles about my presence. I was astonished at how the beetles communicated with each other about my intrusion into their habitat. Human beings would not only probably fail to say something, but would watch and wait to see what would happen to someone else if an intruder had appeared. Animals are much more humane to members of their own species than we humans. In a wolf pack there is no such thing as unemployment as each member of the pack has a job, even the old toothless wolves serve as watchmen for the pack. In human society we toss people deemed undesriable to the side and blame them for their life problems. We are the only species that spends so much time, energy, and resources on finding ways to systematically kill members of our own species off. When lion prides and wolf packs have encounters there may be fights, but the animals do no sit around spending countless hours figuring out how to wipe every other pack out of existence. There are breeds of birds and fish that stay with the same mate for life, even forsaking breeding if they become widowed!(Talk about dedication) Bottom line, we upright walking homo sapiens have a long way to go in treating fellow people better, and we can learn a thing or two from a thicket of beetles.
-Kole Elyon

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