Insects Animals, Humans

Ants

They are there on the earth much before us and have several varieties including white ants. They are very organized society surpassing ours in many ways.

The ants hive has one queen who only reproduces. The male ants are groomed for the next generation by feeding them more. They take wings at monsoon time fly out, and die after the job is done. All queens land at separate places to start the cycle again. Then comes fighters who are fed more than the laborer. They only fight enemies but do not do other works. The laborers gather food feed the fighters and the queen and also store for winter. They also farm a type of fungi to feed. They capture a smaller variety of insect aphids to milk them.

Now we are talking of casteless, classless society, and we have a American doctrine that all men are created equal. When all animals are not equal how men can be equal.

Lions

They are polygamous and the head moves with the harem and has a territory. Any other male intruding is driven away by fight but never killed. The male progeny of the brood on maturity have to move out and search for females and create their territory. The females kill the prey and the king gets the preference. They have a pride with 15 to 16 members also, like a human tribe.

Tigers

The males have a territory but have no family. They are solitary and nocturnal. Females meet them once they are ready and the male moves out being a threat to the growing children. Hunting is also a solitary affair, unlike lions.

Elephants

They are very social move in groups headed be the oldest female, children are taken care of by mothers and aunts. The tuskers job is to protect the heard from enemies other than the primary job. Once in a while lonely males become must and becomes troublesome. They move most of time for food and shelter.

Apes and monkeys

Even though they are different from each other, they have large groups with pecking order clearly defined by strength intelligence. They groom each other and move one place to another searching for food.

Birds

The birds are at a high evolutionary tree. Different species of birds have different social behaviour. The sarus cranes are married for life and they do not have a mate in case of death of the partner.The common cock or sparrows have multiple partners, the cock is similar to lion and sparrows like tigers.

Humans


The human beings being at the highest level of evolution experimented several forms of partnerships, probably by observing the above living creatures.. First individual ownership of land, and then joint ownership of villages and towns emerged. The marriages with a single partner was found to be more conducive in most of the countries. Some preferred polygamy and very few polyandry.

Groups, tribes, nations came up at diverse areas, fought wars to settle disputes, formed  social groups by colour of the skin and by religion and then by caste or class.Laws were enacted by customs, religion and then by state. Armed forces fought like ants, held territory like animals, and kill the opponents by calling them enemies.