When I was young, my family used to grow wheat every year and store some of the grain in silos for our household use. The rest was sold in the marker. About 2-3 times every year, my mother would have our grain silos emptied and all the grain was laid out in the sun to dry and to kill any unwanted insects that can potentially destroy the stores. Birds would fly in and eat some of the grains but once a bird was full it would not come again. Neither would they fight each other over this unexpected bounty nor would they bring bags to store away all of it for later use. This behavior is so unlike us "civilized" humans, isn't it? We fight each other to have control of all the resources we find. Animals usually don't kill one of their kind. A Bird would not have huge stores for itself while others of its own kind would be dying of hunger at the same time. I think that birds would not fight over differences in their relgious ideoligies and skin color. Are we really more civil than animals?
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