Why crow is not as beautiful as birds of paradise?

Sep 14
08:00

2011

Ranganathan

Ranganathan

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Have you ever asked the question of why some animals are very beautiful while some are very ordinary and not so appealing......

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Have you ever asked the question of why the kingdom of plants & animals are blessed with boundless beauty and so much of diversity? Does nature has ‘created’ the various species in two different ways viz.,Why crow is not as beautiful as birds of paradise? Articles ‘products of evolution and ‘products of imagination’? 

Or in other words, are these species were ‘created’ using skill called ‘products of skill’ or ‘products of wisdom’ of nature?

It is difficult to believe that the entire creation is just a matter or effect of some biogeocoenotic events wherein different species have developed diverse adaptations just to meet their survival needs.  The wide varieties of morphological and anatomical differentiations seen in different species of animals and plants are not clearly indicated or established to have any definite survival need. 

If there is no survival need (I guess), why then so much of morphological and anatomical differentiations had occurred in many species of animals and plants?

Today, we have sufficient tools to demonstrate and prove that how these differences can be confirmed or established at genetic level?  The question is why and how such differences have occurred or what would have caused or triggered such differences?

A spontaneous change at the genetic level is possible but why should such differences continue generation after generation? 

The birds of paradise or mandrill monkeys are eternally beautiful & diversely coloured and largely these animals live in rain forests.  On the contrary, the crow or babbler are generally single coloured and does not have any appealing beauty.  The crow and babbler also does not require any special habitat to survive. 

The birds of paradise and the rare simian - mandrill are very selective and they require very specific habitat to live. 

When we look at the contrast, certainly we have to search the fact that why such mystical beauty and variety is seen in some species and very ordinary appearance in others? 

Such differentiation in many species may not have occurred as a result of some survival needs or wants in the ecosystem.  The only possibility it precludes is that the nature would have created various species of plants and animals perhaps as two distinct types such as ‘products of evolution’ and ‘products of imagination’.   

Perhaps nature would have created some species and would have left them in nature to interact & evolve.  The counter effects of evolution are generally expected to just meet the survival needs to live in the given ecosystem.  When the survival needs prevail acutely, the greater proportion of the changes shall be mere anatomical and need based.  Beauty or vibrancy are unlikely possibilities in these species and hence they are classified as ‘products of evolution’.

On the contrary, the creation of the rare species like birds of paradise or mandrill would have been purely based on the imagination of nature.  Nature would have poured its imagination and creative talents in the fullest splendor in these species and that may be the possible reason why they are extraordinarily beautiful and rare in nature.   

 

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