Secrets of Film

- January 30, 2019

Animal life cycles

Animal I relate to:

KOALA
Native to Australia, these cuddly critters are recognisable through their stout, tailless body,
large head with round, fluffy ears, spoon-shaped nose and silver grey to chocolate brown
pelage colour.

1.A type of mammal (marsupial), koalas give birth to their young ones called ‘joey’, who
continue to live in their mother’s pouch for the next six months.
I relate because I have lived under my parent’s protective shade for long in my life. It is only
now, that I have moved away from them for the first time for my higher studies.

2.Their name comes from ‘no drink’ as they don’t drink much water and feed mostly on
eucalyptus leaves.
I keep reminding myself to drink more water!

3.They are asocial animals and bonding exists only between mothers and dependent
offsprings. They spend just 15 minutes a day on social behaviours
I am not much of an extrovert myself, and would would love a life of minimal social
interaction like koalas!

4.As they get limited energy from their diet, koalas limit their energy use and sleep or rest
20 hours a day, only 4 hours are a day are spent in active movement.
the lazy, lethargic part of me is just green with envy at the koalas for having nature as an
excuse to sleep for so long!

Animal with life cycle of a role model:

EAGLE

It is said that eagles can live upto 70 years. But to reach this state they have to make a
tough choice. Every eagle lives for 40 years, but in its 40th year its claws become bent and
unable to catch prey, its wings become hard and its unable to fly high and its beak also gets
old. It then has the choice to either die or fly to the high mountains. There, it must go
through a very painful process of change. First, it knocks it beak over a rock until it pluck
off and waits for a new beak to grow back. Then using this beak, it must pluck out all the
old talons and wait for new, stronger ones to grow. Next it plucks with these talons all the
old feathers to get better, new ones. Thus it undergoes a process of change, which is
undoubtedly painful but worth at the end when it is reborn. It then takes its famous flight
of rebirth and lives on for the next 30 years.

This is something to learn from. It teaches us the importance of change. Change is the only
constant. It is the law of nature. We must also undergo change, however difficult the
process may be, in order to grow in life and even for simple survival.

video on eagle's life cycle

On what's holding my progress:

With reference to our conversation inside, I feel two things are holding our progress.

1 The fact that we don’t interact, don’t speak our mind in the class when the faculty asks
interesting, mind blogging questions in class. Even when we do speak up, it’s in a shy and
diffident manner. I guess the teacher is not wrong then when he says he can’t hear us and
we have a lot of noise in our heads.
2 That we have not been thinking of our blogs from the reader’s interest point of view. If we
start doing that now, it will further refine our writing and documentation. 

With reference to our conversation outside, I honestly could not grasp much but from what I
heard in bits and what I’ve read in bits from other’s blogs, I could get the picture that it’s
much more from a philosophical point of view.
In so many years of our lives, we have not done anything substantial whereas even a
butterfly without any knowledge contributes to the welfare of nature during its own life
cycle.
Our own wrong upbringing, ignorance and borrowed knowledge is holding us back from
progress.
The need of the hour is to change. To learn from what lies in front of us and adopt it now.

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