I can still remember watching Sir David Attenborough video about dung beetles. If you haven't, I have given a video about the dung beetles in following link. However, when I was thinking about it, I had a thought how we are similar and different from a dung beetle. This article is about it.
How are we similar to a dung beetles?
Think about the dung beetle. It was born from a beetle mom and dad. It grew up eating dung. And once it is fit and grown it started rolling balls of cow dung proudly over long distances tiring everyday every week. Eating and growing more. Mated with the partner and made some more beetle kids. Once it is old, it will die making food for some black ants. A whole lot of similarity found between us and dung beetles. You may think wait! we do all those things, but Dung? We don't eat dung.
Of course, we don't eat dung. But I'm quite sure not only the beetles eat dung, but they enjoy that too. They must have taste for the dung, they must feel some satisfaction when they eat. Although we don't share same taste buds, Dung is food for the beetle, and there is nothing wrong in that. Fundamentally beetle eat dung because it has taste for it. Aren't we doing the same? We eat whatever we have taste for. After all, we are animals. How can we judge the beetle. We would be doing the same, if we had taste for that. We are lucky our nature didn't give us taste for that. But imagine a world where we had, and nobody would judge us eating cow dung. It will be like milk.
Surely, you must be furious with me now. You have thousand things to say. We have brains, to think and we are of course higher than a Dung beetle. How dare you compare us with a beetle. Not a Ladybird, but a sick dung beetle? What is the point you are going to prove?
How are we different from a dung beetle?
I can give few ideas from thinking about such a fact.
Following are my lessons.
It helps me to lower down my ego. After all I am not much different from a dung beetle. I have my own dung to roll everyday every week. And whenever I see someone who thinks otherwise it makes me smile. Their ball is bigger, in their dung bank, but it is still dung.
It makes me appreciate the nature. Think about it. Nature as a person, looking at us. Does she see us as this intelligent species doing marvelous things? Maybe not. Maybe nature just laugh at us seeing just like we laugh at beetles. It's time to lower our egotism as a species.
In fundamental aspects of life, I see no difference between humans and dung beetles. I may be wrong.
We have our thinking capacity which is unique. But if we don't use it. We will just spend a beetle life. So, whenever there is time, I suggest you think about life. To understand the game of nature, that it plays with us.
Respect animals, in same level as humans.
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