Unity is Strength

By: Prem Prasad Sigdel

I often watch Animal Planet TV channel when I feel bore. I feel charm of listening radio for news rather than TV news. Watching television means to get entertainment along with knowledge for me. I like Animal Planet as it is based on research mostly the ethnographic features of different animals are featured in an invigorating way. This channel could present the real life of animals unlike the imaginative serials on other television channels.

I prefer the innocent world of animals and their innocent nature which doesn’t harm others.  So these animals win the favor of me. Unfortunately, the lion and its family have killed the innocent animals ruthlessly. The wild animals have their own importance and there may have some ecosystem is running with the killing of the lions. The lion and its family mostly stand as villain in front of meek animals like deer, wild beast, gazelle, zebra, giraffe and so on. However, they don’t abandon the hope of life rather they are fighting for existence.

Among them I like wild buffalo and their unity against lions. Almost three of the lions can’t kill a wild buffalo rather it would be able to defeat them at any cost. Sometimes we have seen that he buffalo would swing the lion with its horn to 5 meter high. And sometimes it would kill the lion piercing its body with pointed horn. Or the lions which we have been reading as the king of the jungle have also been defeated by the buffalo. I have seen that the lion couldn’t attack even the baby of wild buffalo because of their unity. They make a circle and hide their young ones so that the lion would run away despite its effort. So the king of the jungle would have also been defeated by the meek animal like buffalo.

They always live in group and perform their task in group only. They have a leader and others would follow her with system. The lion is their only enemy which they could easily tackle with their unity. One or two of the lions couldn’t attack one of the buffaloes; neither could the lions attack them in group. If any buffalo, mostly the male one, would be separated from the group to get good food would have been attacked by the lions in group and be able to kill him.

Buffalo is a herbivorous animal it doesn’t harm others. It doesn’t kill others so it could win the support of all the spectators like me. However, it could also defeat the lion is a matter of interest to me. If the lion has attacked any of the buffalo in a group others would counter attack and save their individuals. It is only possible only through their unity. Neither would they run after the lion nor have they done any to get food. They have been living unharmed life in the jungle in mutuality unlike the lions.

I have found that unity is really strength. If there is no unity they would have been attacked and killed by the lion. The same unity can’t be seen with deer and wild beast; they have run away and the lion has got a good chance to kill their individual. But the wild buffalo could counter attack in the group and lions would be defeated. Even the lion couldn’t defeat them and they have been living their life comfortably. I like the life style of them that they can even defeat the enemy; neither do enemies attack them. In this way they have splendor life in the jungle.