The Intelligent Nature

Have you ever wondered how intelligent Nature is? Ever paused to notice some of the beautiful mechanisms Nature has in place?

This afternoon, I noticed an army of ants in my room, making their way in through the window, and quietly marching their way to my cot. ANTS!!!! All of a sudden, an army of them into my room...for what purpose? Just yesterday I had discovered in my bag that mom had put some things for me to eat, and as usual, I had forgotten about it. My first concern on seeing this army was to ensure the safety of these eatables. Safe it was. What then is the target of this army?? I had no time to carry out this spy work, and so left.

When I returned, I noticed that the army was spread all over my cot. Cause for serious concern. With time at my disposal, I set to find out what exactly in my room interested these tiny creatures. I noticed that a huge population was there close to my pillow, and so removed everthing near the pillow (I have a few books, a photograph kept there permanently). What I saw at the end of this search first shook me with a feeling of disgust at what I saw - a dead lizard (do I see my lady audience going "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!!!"?). So that was it, a dead lizard.

After a while, it struck me that the lizard had already been half eaten. If only I had left it there, the army would have finished its job clean in a few more hours, and left as quietly as they came. The fact that the army marched in only today implies that the soul of the lizard departed its body very recently. How did these ants get to know there was a dead lizard in my room? Nature, in its intelligence, has told an army of ants which was placed no where close to the scene, to go and do the clean up job. And the army had just obeyed. There lies the beauty in Nature.