Does Nature gives us enough? Not only for us human beings but for all living beings and plants? Yes, it does. And continues to do so.
Nature addresses the need.
It ensures enough feed.
But not human greed!
As Mahatma Gandhi had said that the “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
While walking around our neighbourhood lake during monsoon, we noticed many wild vines and creepers all over. Many leaves in these wild creepers appeared half eaten with holes and perforations. We saw similar wild growth around a golf course close by. Here are some pictures.
It set us thinking. All this is part of the food chain. Food chains are part of Nature's evolution. So the leaves provide nutrition to the plant or the vine. The leaves also are food for insects and caterpillars. Similarly in a forest, Tigers may be on top of the food chain thus:
Tiger-deer-grass-birds-soil-water-dry-leaves-as-manure and so on. You may read how birds are an important part of Nature's ecological balance.
How birds sustain the Food Cycle in a Tiger Reserve?
Some more food chains could be:
Vultures-dead-animals-plants-etc.
Serpent Eagle-snakes-rodents-plants-roots-insects etc.
Owl-snakes-lizards-frogs-insects etc. See the diagram below.
As human beings, we should be responsible for maintaining and not disrupting Nature's food chain. For example, denudation of forests leads to reduction in number of deer which are food for the Tigers. This leads to increasing man-animal conflict. Deforestation in the hills leads to landslides causing silting of the rivers down stream and resulting floods. Floods also occur due to encroachment of river flood banks and Nallahs or drains in cities. Readers may browse our previous stories highlighting this aspect and listed below:
Flood Fury in Hyderabad - How a 91-year old reacted to flooding of her house!
KBG-62 Contest
The 62nd edition of Kaun Banega Ghumakkad, our online Captions Contest was based on the theme of Nature's Food Chain. The picture below received 30 different captions from more than 300 readers worldwide.
We thank all the participants. Complete list of captions is given below:
Sl. |
Name |
Caption
for KBG-62 Contest |
1 |
Sunisha |
Unknown
pain seen! |
2 |
Pradeep
Sethi |
Harbinger
of change! |
3 |
Jaishankar |
'Cater'
ing for others is the 'pillar' of an evergreen life. |
4 |
PRR
Rao |
Happiness
is letting go of what you think your life |
5 |
Poonam
Bhargava |
छिद्र हुए तो क्या, किसी को तृप्त किया मैंने। |
6 |
Avinash
Tiwari |
Bandhani
work. |
|
Poonam
Bhargava |
परोपकार से बड़ा कोई धर्म नहीं |
7 |
Rohini
Tiwari |
Nature's
Origami....unique and beautiful!! |
8 |
Veeky
Baths |
Barishon
ke mausam ki bheegi hariyali |
9 |
Ajai
Bhumri |
" बना बलवान अपने को वरना नुच जाएगा्
" "Survival of the fittest " |
10 |
Kishor Thakre |
Caterpillars
at work! |
11 |
Pradeep
Siwach |
Lebanon
(Refugees ate up the nation) |
12 |
BC
Jayaprakash |
Greater
love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. |
13 |
Bharat
Ladha |
Global
management of survival. |
14 |
Rashmi
Bhargava |
Self
sacrifice is a real miracle |
15 |
Sujata
Das |
Nature's
rangoli🙏 |
16 |
Amandeep
kaur |
There
is no better designer than nature. |
17 |
Siba
K Patnaik |
I am
ok , I am fighting. |
18 |
Manju
Khetan |
इक दिन बिक जाएगा माटी के मोल, बुरे बिचार के किटाणू ऐसे ही हमारे मस्तिष्क को क्षति पहुंचाते हैं। |
19 |
Manu
Bhatnagar |
A
very hungry Caterpillar |
20 |
Shereen
Sultana |
Make a life by giving what you have |
21 |
Ritu
Bhargava |
Not dead, nor alive, still breathing. |
22 |
Nidhi
Bhargava |
जीना उनका जीना है जो औरो को जीवन देता है |
23 |
Radhika
Sareen |
My
loss, someone's gain |
24 |
Radhika
Sareen |
Giving
makes me more beautiful |
25 |
GR
Sreenivasan |
Plant
kingdom, lives to nourish other species including humans without expecting
anything in return. |
26 |
Saumya
Goyal |
There
is beauty even in being broken. |
27 |
Mamta
Bhargava |
We
will survive no matter what may come. |
28 |
Yogesh
Verma |
Jab
Tak Hai Jaan |
29 |
Peter
de Padua |
Nature's
nature. |
30 |
Peter
de Padua |
Green
Gold, isn't it yummy? |
Congratulations
ReplyDeleteThanks are due to regular readers like you Vicky.
DeleteHearty Congratulations to the winners of the captions contest!
ReplyDeleteThe lucid description of the food chain in Nature, made us introspect!
Thanks Dr Sitaram for your encouragement. Next time, will look forward to captions from you as well.
DeleteNice post, sir!
ReplyDeleteThanks Pratik. Hope your channel is doing well.
DeleteThanks for highlighting the circle of life which many are unaware of. And more importantly it's impact on our living
ReplyDeleteThanks much Ron. We all learnt it in our schools. Just refreshing the basics.
DeleteExcellent response, some how my caption "JHROKHE" perhaps could not get uploaded.
ReplyDeletegreat excecise to keep the brains from rusting.
HARSH ur keeping every one deep digging.
Thanks Dr Sethi. That's a nice caption. You can also send the caption on WA in case it doesn't upload on the blog.
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