On January 7, 2002 BBC News
reported that a lioness in central Kenya has baffled wildlife experts by
adopting a baby Oryx, a kind of small antelope normally preyed upon by big cats.
Report said the full-grown lioness came across the Oryx two weeks ago in the
Samburu Game Reserve, scaring off its mother. Instead of then attacking the
defenseless calf, the lioness adopted the baby, protecting it from other
predators, including a leopard. Extraordinarily, the lioness still allowed the
mother Oryx occasionally to come and feed her calf before chasing her away. But
the rule of the wild ultimately prevailed when a male lion attacked and killed
the baby Oryx while the lioness was sleeping. This was either an extraordinary
case of maternal instinct or simply the eighth wonder of the world as it was one
of the first to spot the unlikely pair, which proved a powerful draw for
tourists and game workers alike. The lioness would lie down to rest in the
afternoon and its unlikely charge would curl up beside her. Wildlife expert
Vincent Kapeen said he thought the lioness spared the Oryx "because animals have
a special instinct to care for the young".
On June 27, 2013 National Public Radio USA broadcasted a report that Minneapolis
native Caryn Lantz and her husband, both white, decided to adopt a child, they
were open to adopting any child, regardless of ethnic background. According to
NPR, the two were shocked to discover that some babies could be adopted more
economically than others. They were faced with an uncomfortable truth of
American adoption today: it is far cheaper to adopt a black child than a child
of any other race. For a black child, the process of adoption is quicker as
well. A social worker at an adoption agency explained to them that this was
because they had many black children waiting for families. Adopting a Caucasian,
Asian, Latino, or Biracial child would take longer because there were more
people willing to adopt them.
Dawn Friedman writes: “I have a friend who is also an adoptive mother. She says,
‘My child will NEVER know that our adoption cost less because of his skin color
as knowing will cut to the core of his self-esteem.”
On April 23, 2013 Adario Strange a writer in publications like Wired, PC
Magazine, and New York Press and filmmaker of New York City reported that late
last year Human Rights Watch and Harvard released a 50-page report that outlined
the challenges faced by humanity in the face of advances in semi-autonomous
robots equipped with lethal weapons (aka killer robots). Inspired by the paper,
a consortium of international organizations has joined forces to launch
"Campaign to Stop Killer Robots". The goal of the organization is the
preemptively ban the use of semi-autonomous robots that could be used in
military conflicts to harm humans. "Killer robots are not self-willed
'Terminator'-style robots, but computer-directed weapons systems that once
launched can identify targets and attack them without further human involvement.
Using such weapons against an adaptive enemy in unanticipated circumstances and
in an unstructured environment would be a grave military error. Computer
controlled devices can be hacked, jammed, spoofed, or can be simply fooled and
misdirected by humans." As for how the organization hopes to stop the rapid rise
of drones and other types of semi-autonomous robots that could be used against
humans, the group will push for a new international law or treaty to
specifically address these issues.
Above stated three facts define that animals are being controlled by NATURE
while humans are free to control themselves by making, violating and then making
the rules and regulations to prove that they are the most civilized creature.
Robot is a creature of human being having both characteristics of human and
animal.
What a pity that humans are scared by their own creation and this is the result
of damage and destruction being done to the nature’s beauty by humans.
Technological research and advancement leads to identification of CREATOR of the
Universe but it should not be done on the cost of destruction of beauty of
Universe and the whole process should not comprise of selfishness.