Whoz more territorial

Many of recent incidences inspire me to write this article. Just a couple of days back I saw my room mate in hunt of something. He resembled like a lioness looking for a prey; that might be an exaggeration but something close to that. And when I asked him what was he doing, I came to know that he was hunting for roaches. The only reply I had was....Dude..!!!

However later I realised, it was not only him. Many do that. Even I did that. We find roaches, ants and other easy to kill insects, so kill dem. What is it that triggers us to do that. Is it the fear..not all times actually. Not everyone are afraid of a Roach, even though they kill it. Is it the superiority that I am bigger and you are smaller that leds us to kill it and feed our ego or is it just being territorial..this is my place, u made the mistake of entering it and now pay the price by getting killed for it.

This led me to think who is more territorial. They say crocks, hippos are the most territorial animals. But even the animals with no 'brain' at least give you a warning when you are about to surpass and try to drive you out when you do that. Killing is also what they do if you don't understand their warning. And humans having 'brain' normally do understand that it doesn't want us to go close. Taking this warning we back off.

The point is since we got brains we can understand that the animal doesn't want us to enter its territory. Should we expect the same from animals. But they don't have brains. How will it understand that it should not surpass our territory. Ultimately cock-roach is something that gets attracted to stale food. Its not its fault if we don't do dishes regularly. It is bound to come. And its not its fault that it reproduces very fast.

I know we are not going change so easily. However, cock roaches are one of the world's oldest citizens and we should show them some respect for their survival skills at least.