I watched this squirrel going up and down along the trunk of a tree in our courtyard. From a distance I was not sure of not its purpose. Only when I brought the camera and looked through the lens I noticed the streaks of earthen tracks along the bark of the tree, which is the traffic path for the white ants. As the squirrel went up and came down, it was consuming the white ants crawling under the earthen track.
The movement up and down intrigued me. It would eat the white ants only when it came down as the earthen particles would fall off the tree down ward, when squirrel broke the track to find the feed of white ants. If it was to break the earthen track while going up, the earthen fragments wound fall on its face and eyes. Are they not clever and practical!
There is something to learn from all that we notice around us in nature. They are lessons of some significance.
Among the six Rambutan trees, one is taller than all the others without spreading its branches. The few fruits as against hundreds in the others made us suspicious. Its fruits are sour. . It was a wild Rambutan tree.
All Rambutan saplings would receive grafting from a tree which produces many fruits. That is how they endow the sapling to grow into a tree, with spread out branches by three years to bear fruits.
This endowment by grafting is for bringing better prospects to grow to be fruit bearing.
I find this as a message of some significance in cilld development.
The time to invest in the life a child is the pre-school years. From infancy a child is growing and learning.
Endow a pre-school child with full parental attention through play, interaction, reading stories, singing, bedtime story times, happy meal times, social experiences, outings, creating a child's corner at home, etc. A preschool child would thrive with happy memories of childhood.
Children need parents and their presence to unfold themselves to become resourceful!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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