Could learn a thing or two from them.
There’s been some small articles in recent years by wildlife biologists about the phenomenon of inter-species relationships --more and more of them are citing that it’s because the animals know something we don’t.
If you think about it, most animals don’t have a ‘human’ capacity for pity or compassion beyond the instinctive need to protect young. An animal crying out in pain will attract predators’ attention so other animals will actually avoid it rather than go help --even its own flock or group mates. Also, animals survive by scent; in this photo, the monkey knows the kitten is not its spawn or one of its brethren. Other animals that get along also know that they’re not the same species at all (I saw a recent photo of two animals of similar size playing in a yard but one is a tiger cub and the other a dog!) …so why do they get along?
Article writers are speculating that the animals sense, like they do earthquakes and storms, that they have to stick together for survival’s sake. Makes me sad to consider this might be the reason… but also glad they’re helping each other out. For creatures that we consider to be 'sub-species' and whose lives have less value than ours, and who don't have what we label to be emotions --they sure could teach us a thing or two about accepting differences and tolerance.
