An evening walk
Today, in my evening walk, I clicked this picture wondering, " why are these cattle egrets hanging out near the goats?". I have seen them around the cattle, where they eat small insects that sit on cattle and disturb them. This symbiotic relationship is called commonalism, where one species is benefited and the other is not harmed. Though I see goats every evening, I have not really noticed egrets around them till today.... The goats were seen nibbling at the leaves and running allover . The egrets were following them . Every egret had marked one goat for himself ! When I spoke to the shepherd, she told me that the movement of the goats disturbs the vegetation below and small insects fly out, which is eaten by the egrets. It was such a treat to watch the alert egrets run behind hyperactive goats. I was then reminded of my Waldorf training at goetheanum( in Switzerland) last year. We were asked to observe the behavior of animals( I chose the horses ) for close to an ho...