Squirrels are the best teachers
Introduction
Squirrels are considered the intelligent rodents. In
Ramayan, these squirrels have helped in constructing Ramsetu and inspiring
Sughreev and his companions, thus contributing in defeat of Raavan. They tought
that though they are small in size, yet they can contribute something good for
mankind though that thing is small in quantity. They thus became dearer to Lord
Rama. They can climb trees and jump from one tree to another. They are little
rodents with great courage and adaptability. They are the best risk takers.
Smartness of squirrel
When squirrels are being observed, they’ll do acting of
constructing fake caches, thus pretending to bury a nut, going through the
whole process of digging a hole, digging it through with their front teeth, and
covering the dirt or grass over the top of it. They’ll actually be hiding the
nut in a pocket near their armpit.
Escape from predators
They run away in zigzag pattern so as to escape hawks and
predators.
Quick learning ability of squirrels
Squirrels will watch another squirrel remove a nut from one
of two pots. The squirrels quickly learned the fact that if the squirrel they
watched taking out the nut, the pot would become empty and that choosing the
opposite pot was the better bet. They showed reluctance in choosing a pot
without observing a fellow squirrel. Having ability to learn by observation is
an indicator of squirrel’s abstract thought.
Squirrel’s memory skills
Squirrels have depicted they have an ability of remembering
where they have buried the nuts. In a study carried out at Princeton
University, grey squirrels were able to use spatial memory to recover nut
caches they had buried. They are able to remember good sources of food.
Squirrels also have ability to memorize the easiest route in upwards direction
of a tree to get back and forth from their nests.
What Sidhant learned from squirrel?
One day Sidhant was walking in park. After getting tired
from long walk he sat down on a seat in park. Then suddenly he saw a squirrel,
trying to consume flower, reached the end of the tree branch. The tree branch
got bent downwards risking squirrel’s fall from tree. This did not bother
squirrel, instead squirrel reached the flower and ate the flower with full
concentration. Squirrel’s whole focus was on flower and squirrel didn’t worry
about felling from tree. Then after consuming some part of flower, squirrel
such a great acrobat, runned towards the side of branch of tree other than
branch’s end. This capability can be attributed to the fact that tree squirrels
have the ability to rotate their ankles backwards which allows them to have
grip on branches and limbs in a strong manner than they could if they are faced
in forward direction. This helps them to climb rapidly, run away from prey, and
have access to food sources where other animals can’t reach.
From this Sidhant learned that we should focus on achieving
our goals without worrying about failure and we should proceed towards our
goals fearlessly.
Another inspiration from Squirrel
Just like squirrel takes a long jump from one distant stone
to another distant stone, we should try to minimize differences between our
loved ones and get connected with them and we should work together to solve
problems which peep somehow between our loved ones.
Squirrels and platonic love
Squirrels best teach us platonic love. Just like squirrels
spread positivity when they around us, we should feel positive about our loved
ones around us and enjoy their freedom and happiness. Squirrels are just like
our loved ones being source of inspiration to us and teach us life skills.
Being able to do good without becoming famous for their deed. They are those
creatures that make scenic beauty of nature beautiful. Like many rodents,
squirrels have food hoarding quality. Though this is done by these squirrels to
survive scarcity times. However, this is not foolproof. In this way, they
contribute in planting of trees thus maintaining ecological balance. These
squirrels thus contribute to increasing oxygen on earth.Thus they are the real
environment saviours. Though they cannot be tamed and kept inside our houses,
yet they make you feel good and you can enjoy while feeding them.
Adaptability of squirrels
As squirrels have great adaptability, they teach humans to
thrive in adverse conditions thus teaching them that tough situation do not
last tough men last do. Deserts, temperate forests, rainforests, and grasslands
are the areas where squirrels can live. As Squirrels bring their tails in
utilisation in order to remain dry and warm. They teach us to be confident on
our good qualities and talent and thus believe in ourselves. Also they teach us
the quality of self happiness and contentment
As Ground-dwelling squirrels have quality of living together
in colonies thus teach us how to be social while tree-dwelling squirrels as
they love to spend their time alone they teach us how to embrace loneliness,
how to make loneliness your strength
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