The Jungle Law

Photo taken at Selous Game Reserve, KsK 2009

I have heard

There is a law of the jungle

I have heard when the lion has eaten his fill

He never attacks

He goes to lie under dense shady trees

- Syeda Hameed

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Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

If ye plunder his Kill from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride;
Pack-Right is the right of the meanest; so leave him the head and the hide.

The Kill of the Pack is the meat of the Pack. Ye must eat where it lies;
And no one may carry away of that meat to his lair, or he dies.

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Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is — Obey!

- Rudyard Kipling

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Sure, the lion is king of the jungle, but airdrop him into Antarctica and he's just a penguin's bitch.

- Dennis Miller

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

- Carl Sagan

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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.

- Yann Martel (Life of Pi)

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Social law vs. Jungle law

One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.

- Pekka Himanen

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