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THE MARVELLOUS
CO-OPERATION OF
THE ANT AND THE BIRD
There are microbes everywhere that threaten our health and cause diseases.
These microbes are a danger to other living creatures as well as human be-
ings. Therefore these creatures, too, need to protect themselves just as we
do. When living creatures are observed, we see that they use various meth-
ods to protect themselves against microbes. For instance, ants produce a
kind of acidic substance that incapacitates microbes. They apply this acidic
substance to their bodies and to the walls of their nest. In other words, they
know that not only they themselves but also the nest they live in should be
purified of microbes.
How is it that a little ant can know how to act so intelligently? There is no
doubt that the ant’s intellectual capacity is not up to that. An ant can know
neither what a microbe is nor that it should protect itself from it. The ant
should have first analyzed the microbe and then found the substance to
render it harmless. But how could it have determined this substance?
Let’s think about it together.
People are inoculated against specific
microbes, but these vaccines are pre-
pared in laboratories as a result of
much research and experiment.
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