I recently received an e-mail from a friend and it really made me stop in my tracks. It was a series of pictures of a bird trying to save it's spouse who was hit by a car. At the end, you see this bird mourning besides the dead one helpless. I then remembered the story about the hippo that was orphaned after a tsunami and a 100 year old tortuous adopted the orphan. I stopped and pondered, why is it that different animal species can watch out for one another while humans who are supposedly better in terms of morality can't treat people of different tribes, races, creeds and even genders with higher levels of decency.
So here I write...
And we say that we have evolved from animals but look at the differences in our nature and theirs. When a female dog lets baby tigers suckle her milk, when a donkey and a horse create a family, when a century old tortious protects an orphaned hippo, when these species coexist in harmony, we must ask ourselves, do we really think we are better than them?
We batter baby seals for clothing, rob elephants of their tusks for jewelry, skin tigers going extinct and bulldoze their shelters for parking lots, then we wonder why we can't all just get along.
u said donkey :)
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