Flipping through the channels, I
just lingered on National Geographic HD channel. It was a program on wild
animals. A female leopard fought with a big female baboon and finally killed
it. As the leopard started pulling the carcass up the tree, I decided to change
the channel to avoid any further gory details. Just when I was about to change
the channel, my fingers froze! A tiny one-day old infant fell off from the
belly of the baboon. I was in double mind – I wanted to change the channel but
curiosity prevented it. As the tiny baboon infant fell off from the branch the
leopard approached it. I held my breath. The leopard gently cuddled the infant
baboon. Scared as it was the infant baboon started crawling across. The leopard
suddenly saw a hyena lurking around. Instead of protecting its kill, the leopard
first gently picked up the infant and put it on the tree. Then it came back to
chase away the hyena. The infant baboon, scared and confused, kept crawling
across and leopard did its best to keep it on the branch safely. Finally the
infant baboon settled with the leopard and cuddled together, they both rested!
I literally had Goosebumps! As I
switched off the TV I was extremely disturbed. We call human beings an evolved species. Regularly
one reads in the newspapers the hideous act of what is shamelessly called “Honor
killings”. Just because the kids decide to be partners with someone who is not
from the caste/creed the council of wise men (!!!!) decide to punish them with
brutal murder.
If a predator like leopard makes
its best efforts to save the infant of its prey, what gives us right to call
ourselves a higher species? As long as hideous events like honor killing
continue to happen around us we definitely don’t deserve the
description!!!!!!!!
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