Not Just To Eat With!
Chimpanzees have enormous strength and teeth to defend themselves against other aggressive males and predators. (It is not wise to enter into my cage at the zoo if I am annoyed.) In fact, some zoos protect their patrons by locating the chimpanzees on an island. We are not good swimmers although we are muscle-bound fighters.
Apparently, all creatures are able to defend themselves in diverse ways but having a solitary sheep next door to my enclosure, I am intrigued by its means of protection:
- It stays with the flock and the flock mass together against predators
- It never walks in a straight line so that it can see predators approaching from behind
- It bears pain silently so that a predator does not know that it is weak and vulnerable to attack
It does not seem to me that a sheep has any real defence against a starving wolf or other predator but, of course, I am forgetting that a sheep has the intelligence to endear itself to human beings and some of them are herders of sheep – shepherds and shepherdesses!
One of the humans likened himself to a shepherd and humans to sheep:
If humans do not choose to follow a wise, vigilant shepherd, they are prey to every predator.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley, The Fighting Chimpanzee
2 thoughts on “Not Just To Eat With!”
What interesting observations about your friend, the sheep!
I have a notice on my desk which happens to be about sheep, and their need to be guided by a Good Shepherd.
It says -“I am a sheep. I follow a Shepherd who keeps me, provides and protects and leads me.
Going your own way in life is spiritually very dangerous. As it is said – ‘It costs to follow Jesus, but it costs more not to’ “.
That is so helpful to an evolving Chimpanzee! Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
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