Food for thought

Biology has always been a great challenge for me. To learn about diversity topics like cells and having to spoil my eyesight as i scrutinise the teeny cells through microscopes tortured me big time. Lab sessions often wearied me and leave me flabbergasted. I can neither understand nor can i appreciate the tiny organisms around.

However, the lesson on animal kingdom today got me on my feet. At least this is easier to digest as compared to cell wall or membrane whatsoever. My tutor talked about food chain. Human; in scientific terms; homo sapiens are the keystone predator. In layman terms, you and i are at the top of the food chain. We consume almost everything in the world. On this note, you should realise that we are critical to the food chain as we control the survival of the rest of the organisms below us. 

I am amused by how my puny brain grew today. -Put on my smarty specs-  I just got to know that after a predator gobbled up its prey , only 10 percent of the energy is transferred to the next level. Therefore, we should try to consume more vegetables instead of meat. If not, the energy accumulated upwards the chain would be wasted. Lets all be vegetarians. (for a week maybe?) :DD

To bring the food chain into real life situation, it sets me thinking. Although all of us hate bossy, domineering boss in our company, leaders from "Pay And Pay", irritating class monitors, the gangsta geeko sapiens in the picture above, we have to admit that these people are actually the pillars of our society. They are just like the tigers in the forest. Only a few of them as compared to the entire forest population. None of the other animals like them. However, if they are extinct, there will be chaos in the food chain. Whereby, more wolf packs would be around, feeding on the rabbits and then they reproduce. No more rabbits, more grass, more wolves around. The entire forest will go hay-wired. 

Hence, leaders are indispensable. 

If you can't stand them, try to work harder (in terms of enquiring more knowledge and study harder so as to climb up the intellectual food chain) and beat them. I guess this is the only way out.