Be Loyal is to be faithful to one’s friends, principles, country, school, job, etc. Loyalty is a tenet that everybody has, animals have it too. Gorillas are a clear example of it.
In Africa, these great apes live in groups. As many as thirty gorillas may live together, but there are more likely to be from six to seventeen animals in a group. The group always includes at least one full-grown male that by this time has grown a saddle silver hair on his back . Whithin the group there are often one or more younger blackback males, a few females, and a number of youngsters and infants.
A mature silverback at least twelve years old is their leader . This enormous gorilla decides when and where the group travels , feeds , rests and sleeps . The leader is the chief protector of the group . When danger threatens , the others usually slip off , leaving the silverback behind to warn and repel the invader . They rarely fight .
Females gorillas may scream at each other – and perhaps even scratch and bite lightly . At such times glare from the silverback is enough to restore the peace . A stare or nudge from the leader also keeps the males behaving . With infants , even the firmest leader is often easygoing .
He allows them to pull his hair , punch him , and crawl all over him . Once when a little gorilla leaned against a huge silverback , the male grabbed a long-stemmed flower and tickled the infant with it . Babies are in fact , popular with the entire group . Male and female gorillas hug and play with them much the way we do with human babies .
Females move up in rank when they become mothers . If one wants a better place to sit , a childless female will move over for her . Or a female without little ones will play baby-sitter while a mother eats or naps . The jungle exposes all animals to dangers , even the mighty gorilla .
These great apes climb trees carefully , but now and then they misjudge the strength of the branches and fall. They also get injuried by running into sharp , pointed branches . When they can , they treat their own wounds . They lick the broken skin and pull the hair from the injured area . If they cant reach it , another animal in the group will care for the wound .
In this group of gorillas we can appreciate a family loyalty . We see how loyal the leader is to his family and the family to his leader . Inside a family is the same , the loyalty from the children to their parents and vice versa . We care about our family s members and we always try to take care of them .
The same thing happen in our Dojan , we are like a family that take care of each other . We are loyal to our teachers we trust in our teacher and they trust in us . We are loyal to our classmates , we care about them , that why we try to help them to learn , to improve and to practice good . “No man is an island , entire of itself . .
. ” (John Donne). I particularly find frienship as a good example of loyalty . The contemporary saying “people need people” is a way of expressing our need for association with friendly others .
From birth to death we need the nurture of other humans ,and nearly everything we do is affected by what responses we anticipate and receive . As we move from place to place , from relationships to relationships , from job to job (from school to school), often far away from home , we desperatey need some trusted friends . Our survival depends on finding ways to treat strangers and be treated by them with kindness , compassion , and benevolence – in short , as friends . What , then , are .
