Who is more evolved?

Hello readers’ good morning!

Hope you all are doing great.

Life was given us a billion years ago, do we know what to do with it?

-From the movie Lucy

This blog hit me as lighting when I was watching a documentary on the national Geographic channel; it was titled world’s deadliest and in that particular episode was about the ultimate abilities of few handpicked species.

The next 30 minutes I watched the most amazing organisms which was beautifully filmed and shown.

Most of these belonged to the sea world mostly everything was shot on the sea bed. The theme or the concept of the feature was to show the different types of techniques these creatures use to catch their prey or attract its mate build their homes and so on.

The amazing part of the feature which I cannot forget is the hammer mantis shrimp, the digger snails and a weird rodent which was derived from species which has ears like a rabbit legs like a kangaroo and nose like a pig! I am not able to recollect the name if I get it will update it.

When I was watching this documentary I felt, we humans are way behind in genetics and the abilities or we can call it super-powers that these animals have we win only in few things like our mind power and the power to control nature to certain extent like lighting a fire or creating ice out of water, or building weapons of mass destruction

We all know ants communicate through chemicals which are called as pheromones; they also use touch and smell with the help of their antenna.

The great advanced human beings talk of superiority and things like these, but I have realised whatever qualities we have developed is from animals, a pack of lioness choose the strongest male as its ate so that the future is safe, the elephants depend on the eldest in the group who is the matriarch to lead the group that is the trust they have in their leadership, when a snake is born it is totally on its own will have to survive by itself till its death, that is self-reliance.

The Intelligence

So the analogy is that there are themes and behaviours which are going on the animal communities across species which has a great resemblance towards our societal living patterns.

There are birds which keep their nests spic and span to attract a mate, the cuckoo steals other bird’s eggs and feeds its own that is the first thievery recorded much before we came into the scene.

So every time we think that we are so special and invented gizmos' and also feel proud of our long distance communications, beat this! a tortoise or a sea turtle   comes back to the same beach where it was born even if is many miles away from it and same with the blue whale, pelicans and flamingos have great migrations with the help of the earth’s magnetic field.

Reptiles are still more advanced they have their weapons like heat sensors, changing skin colour, bi-directional eyes, night vision to name a few.

Let us all think for a while and stop feeling proud that we are the greatest creations ever and accept that everything that was created is great and we are also among them, all the animals are mature enough not to  interfere in our business for their own gains as we do to get their benefits.

But still at the end they are advanced than us, yes for me it feels great to see all these great creatures as a product of mutations of a single gene which has given rise so many ecosystems, phyla and species.

If we all seriously feel proud of our intellect, the task is to show courtesy towards nature and raise hands in unity to save it, and at least if you’re not able do anything better to keep quite than building plans to destroy it.

Let’s admire nature and try to save what is left.

Thanks for your time.

 Adios!