Leopards and Other Animals

African Leopards

Years ago, I watched a female leopard on television give birth to two cubs. The male leopard on her western border killed the two cubs and then laid with her. Three months later she gave birth to two more cubs. The male leopard on her eastern border came and killed the cubs.

The film then shows the female leopard walking back and forth in obvious high anxiety and distress. Suddenly she stops and goes to the male on her western

border, laid with him for two days, then laid with the male on her eastern border for two days. A few months later she gave birth to two more cubs, and behold, neither male killed the cubs, both believing they had sired them.

This is an example of strategic thinking by an animal, the same strategic thinking we humans do in our business endeavors, something that all animal biologists should be aware of and include in their study of animals.

On Wild Dogs

Wild dogs die of a broken heart when removed from the pack. The medical term for this is cardiomyopathy or broken heart syndrome. How is that regarding love?

On God and Dog

Question: Why is dog spelled backwards God, and vice versa?

Answer: Because both give unconditional love.

UNCOVERY

<strong>I</strong>
<strong><em>Contemplation</em></strong>
<strong>Bang</strong>
<strong>a singularity</strong>
<strong>miracle of miracles</strong>
<strong>and ‘you’ exist.</strong>
<strong>A part of the expansion</strong>
<strong>a part of Heaven</strong>
<strong>from the Greek word Ouranos</strong>
<strong>a bang into an expansion.</strong>
<strong>You, here, now,</strong>
<strong>reading, listening</strong>
<strong>interpreting</strong>
<strong>thinking</strong>
<strong>feeling</strong>
<strong>imagining the unimaginable</strong>
<strong>that singularity then</strong>
<strong>your individuality now.</strong>
<strong>Alone among billions</strong>
<strong>each an earthbound star</strong>
<strong>eyes reflecting light</strong>
<strong>ears encompassing sound</strong>
<strong>voices expressing feeling</strong>
<strong>minds considering consciousness.</strong>
<strong>Extending</strong>
<strong>further and further</strong>
<strong>always</strong>
<strong>changing</strong>
<strong>this solitary eternal moment</strong>
<strong>of your existence.</strong>
<strong>Imagine</strong>
<strong>imagine</strong>
<strong>you existing</strong>
<strong>as stardust then</strong>
<strong>in human form now</strong>
<strong>with mindfulness</strong>
<strong>observing you.</strong>
<strong>Consider the purpose</strong>
<strong><em>(or even the non-purpose)</em></strong>
<strong>for we were born to contemplate this</strong>
<strong>at the moment of the singularity</strong>
<strong>to contemplate this</strong>
<strong>to come to know</strong>
<strong>what the Gatekeeper wants us to know.</strong>
<strong>II</strong>
<strong><em>Light</em></strong>
<strong>Atomic signals</strong>
<strong>light shining upon us</strong>
<strong>in us</strong>
<strong>through us</strong>
<strong>interpreting truth.</strong>
<strong>Kingdoms of OZ overthrown by Artificial Intelligence</strong>
<strong>DNA and death out of the closet</strong>
<strong>the grim reaper is worried</strong>
<strong>the homage is the homage to science.</strong>
<strong>Microscope and telescope the magic wands</strong>
<strong>the scientist is the prophet of our time</strong>
<strong>of this there is no doubt</strong>
<strong>and the Gatekeeper wants us to know</strong>
<strong>the Gatekeeper wants us to enter by this way.</strong>
<strong>Follow, follow, follow</strong>
<strong>along the way of imagining</strong>
<strong>not by discovery</strong>
<strong>but by uncovery</strong>
<strong>as the artichoke leaves uncover the heart</strong>
<strong>a simple finding of what is already there.</strong>
<strong>As like E=MC squared was always there</strong>
<strong>waiting, for big Al, the Man,</strong>
<strong>to uncover it for us to know</strong>
<strong>to uncover what already exists</strong>
<strong>so that we may marvel at the knowing.</strong>
<strong>Hubble vision is the contact lens</strong>
<strong>the micro is the macro on a computer screen</strong>
<strong>through all frequency time machines</strong>
<strong>and always in the becoming</strong>
<strong>the showing of miracles on a routine basis.</strong>
<strong>Yes, the miracle has become the mundane</strong>
<strong><em>(for this we could be found guilty)</em></strong>
<strong>losing it all in the taking for granted</strong>
<strong>the way a lover loses his beloved</strong>
<strong>by taking her for granted.</strong>
<strong>The Light is the Rosetta Stone</strong>
<strong>the Light holds the wisdom of what we uncover</strong>
<strong>the Light is the way of deciphering the mystery</strong>
<strong>as Angels cradle galaxies in their hands</strong>
<strong>and the Gatekeeper smiles upon their creations.</strong>
<strong>III</strong>
<strong><em>Destiny</em></strong>
<strong>This very moment</strong>
<strong>on a sunny ocean beach</strong>
<strong>in anticipation of expectant release</strong>
<strong>a child holds sand in a tiny hand.</strong>
<strong>Another moment</strong>
<strong>somnus black potentiality</strong>
<strong>pregnantly awaiting its singularity</strong>
<strong>like the wombed infant</strong>
<strong>remaining ready to go forth.</strong>
<strong>Bang!</strong>
<strong>destiny unfolds</strong>
<strong>a tiny hand and singularity respond</strong>
<strong>all flowing outward</strong>
<strong>ready to accomplish</strong>
<strong>its preordained place</strong>
<strong><em>(Its work)</em></strong>
<strong>of filling time and space.</strong>
<strong>Galaxies, stars, planets, earth,</strong>
<strong>you, I, and they,</strong>
<strong>this very moment decreed</strong>
<strong>for science tells us of the physicality.</strong>
<strong>Each grain to land</strong>
<strong>preordained</strong>
<strong>each planet meant to be</strong>
<strong>billions meant to breathe</strong>
<strong>at the moment of the singularity.</strong>
<strong>The Angels are smiling upon us.</strong>
<strong>The Gatekeeper wants us to enter by this way.</strong>