Tatva-Artha

By law, I mean law of nature. Today I had an interesting experience. While driving for workout, I saw family of one duck and 4 ducklings crossing road in front of my car. Suddenly, there came coyote rushing to grab one of the duckling. Just as coyote was grabbing one of the ducklings and running away, it hit another car. Coyote dropped duckling and ran away.

The duckling was injured and I could not leave it alone. It would either be taken away again by coyote or get overridden by a non suspecting car. Not knowing what to do, I called 911 for advice. Interestingly, I got response that it is just the “law of nature” and there is nothing they can do about it. Understandably, police must be getting a few tens of those calls each day and they have more important work to do than attend to this concern. Fortunately, they left me with a phone number for nearby Wildlife preservation center.

I called Willowbrook Wildlife Center. They were accepting injured animal. I ended up dropping the duckling there.

Half an hour drive from where I was to the wildlife center left me thinking. Obviously, I saved one but there must be quite a few such incidents happening each day. Did I interfere with nature by doing this? Did coyote’s life depend on find such prey? If I could save each and every duckling, should I do it? Would it not negatively impact nature?

Hmm, look at the image… even a duckling lives off of insect!