How do We Use All Our Energies to Fulfill the Expectation of those who are Counting on Us
1. The American Woodcock - is a migratory bird, who inhabits swamps, wet woods and thickets. It is known as a solitary and secretive species, averaging eleven inches in size. Three to four buff-colored eggs hatch in a shallow nest of twigs and leaves. Within two weeks the hatchlings are able to fly.
How does the Woodcock illustrate responsibility in fulfilling expectations?
The Woodcock carefully leads her family in search along the surface of the marchland. The ground was too dry for the probing of her bill to find food she needed for her young. The young woodcocks observed an important aspect of responsibility by the example of their mother using all her energies to fulfill the needs of her young.
2. The Pied-Bill Grebe - spends most of its life in the water, the element for which it is ideally suited. An inhabitant of both fresh water and salt water, this fifteen-inch bird has a wingspread of twenty-three inches. The migratory grebe weighs only one pound.
How does the Pied-Bill Grebe illustrate responsibility for lasting achievements?
Warm winds bent cattails over the nesting grebe and her young. An unnatural darkness covered the southern horizon and rapidly filled the entire sky. Several sandpipers and terns returned to the shore nests in sand and clumps of grass on the island as the rain intensified. In making the nest, the grebe had employed an amazing engineering feat which served as a precaution for just such a time as this. It had designed it to float up and down with the waves. By choosing the location carefully and constructing the nest against the danger of sudden spring storms, the grebe and her young escaped destruction.
3. The Common Crow - Despite the encroachment of civilization upon its natural habitat, the crow not only has survived but has actually increased in number. This omnivorous bird is twenty inches in length. Congregating in large flocks which could reach forty thousand in size, crows inhabit parks, woods and fields, displaying strong group loyalty. Two sentry guards were placed on the topmost branch of a dead tree, guarding the group.
How does the Crow illustrate responsibility in performing a task?
A distant sound broke the stillness of the afternoon. Indistinct at first, the noise grew in volume until a muffled flapping of wings filled the air. Gleaming, black-feathered crows approached from an adjacent field, soared past a white pine grove and began feeding on remnant corn left behind from the year's harvest. Suddenly, a stranger was spotted by one of the birds on the ground, and a scream of alarm was taken up by one crow after another. Almost as a unit, the entire flock took to wing, but they did not fly away as the intruder had expected. To his amazement they began diving viciously in attach against the two sentries. The unreliable guards were torn to shreds by sharp beaks and claws in a brief but brutal battle. Justice was delivered swiftly for their failure to watch and warn. The flock could not afford to tolerate such irresponsibility, and to ensure that the sentries would never again be in a position to jeopardize their safety, they were swiftly eliminated.
4. The River Otter - The frolicsome river otter inhabits watercourses throughout North America. This three-foot mammal averages thirty pounds in weight and is active at all times of the day and year. The only member of the weasel family with a webbed foot. it spends hours on end in spirited play.
How does the Otter illustrate responsibility in making work enjoyable?
Talented acrobats, the otters are the most proficient swimmers of the weasel family. It is hard to believe that an animal which enjoys and is so competent in the water would be afraid of it at birth. But such is the case with the young otter pups. To introduce them to this threatening element the parents employ an involved strategy. The parents remain in the same area throughout the summer concentrating on developing the skills of their pups, teaching them by example to fish and hunt for crayfish. By the end of the season, not only will the pups have mastered their aquatic skills, but of even greater importance, they will have learned how to approach a routine task with the carefree abandon that characterizes this fun-loving mammal.
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