incredible video of buffalo and lions
Thanks to those who shared this amazing video online, I’d bookmarked it to post it here and am making a quick post as I came across the link again today…
Slight modification of a famous quote for this photo 😉
Finally I uploaded my photo from the previous Bangalore Weekend Shoot photographer’s club meet in Lalbagh… (Clicking on an image above takes you to a bigger version) I would like to invite you dear reader – can you send me a drawing of one of the above pictures…? A simple pencil sketch will do, unless…
kaage Originally uploaded by common man. This is this particular common man’s favorite common bird – a crow. This fellow was flying around Sankey Lake. There are lots of them here, and one can see them bathing, and balancing on a narrow thin branch, etc Crows are really intelligent birds, capable of using tools (who…
centipede Originally uploaded by common man. I had always thought this fellow was a centipede until I looked up wiki and found that centipedes are actually venomous and look totally different and I don’t remember ever seeing one in my life. So all the ‘centipedes’ I’ve ever seen have actually been millipedes… but well, what’s…
bottoms-up! Originally uploaded by common man. A duck diving underwater gave a lot of entertainment to a group of excited scout and guide kids watching it from on top (in Lalbagh this morning)!
feathered conference Originally uploaded by common man. Of course its not really possible to see them with this image resolution, or without a binoculars if you were actually at that place… but just take a guess… The following image has a closeup that makes it easier to count 8)
A beutiful animal world there in the video. Indeed a rare feast of view of our jungle animal world there. I don’t want to derive any moral lessons there. Who told our baffalows are timid and dull? Who told our lions are aggressive and firy? It’s all our own projections and predictions. The animal world there moves on a different paradigm of intelligence – unbelievable! Watching the live natual and animal world is more worth and life-transforming than listening to the dead holy sermons and scriptures. Now it’s time to learn the lost beauty of life from the animal world, rather than from the ‘guru world, holy world, scripture world, sermon world’!
great observation, sulochanosho!
Now that you mention it, I recall a related point.
In the natural world, we see the behaviour of deer or zebra or buffalo, when they’re in danger of a predator, they keep the young towards the inside in a relatively more secure area.
Yet a common sight on the road is that we often see people walking with kids, sometimes really tiny tots, who are walking on the side of the traffic.
Its not that drivers want to be savage like lions, but common sense tells us that from a driver’s point of view, its easy to see an adult but not always as easy to see a kid walking beside him or her! So the rushing traffic is as dangerous if not more as the savage lions for these kids.
And as you have highlighted, we must seriously question: where has this natural protective instinct in these adults got lost?
So I have to agree that we certainly can learn about the lost beauty of life from the animal world!
(I think guru world is too generic, there are good gurus who want to make help very transparently way without causing any sense of obligation, and other gurus who want to say words more to gratify than to actually help, so can’t compare. Also in most cases gurus just want to share some simple ideas, but its ‘disciples’ who get so carried away that they do something worse than “shoot the messenger” – they “worship the messenger”
!! )
More about nature…
~ farming without harming
Thanks Sanjay, great rare insights there.