Spirit animal – Indian Tiger And Deer

When I saw this picture, I was struck by the story it told. Two of the top specimens of their kind, battled for twenty-four hours to determine life and death.  The tiger needs to hunt and kill to eat and to survive.  The scenario is very much like the motivational story about the lion and the gazelle, which I used to use when I was teaching Organizational Behaviour.

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will die, so it prays to God in the morning saying “God help my feet to be faster than the lion today, so I don’t become its meal”. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death, so it also prays to God saying “God help my feet to be faster than the gazelles today, so I can feed”.

Now the God I know answers prayers, so who’s prayer will it answer on this day, the gazelle’s or the lion’s, I’m sure if you were God, you will be confused here, well I can put the question in another form, if Nigeria and Brazil were to play a football match today and both teams pray who’s prayer will God answer? I’m sure the answers will be different in Nigeria and Brazil.

Well the truth is God has answered their prayers by giving both the gazelle and the lion skills to survive, so now on this faithful morning, it will be up to the one who puts to best use the skills and abilities at its disposal.

And the truth is it doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

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A Sambar, an Asian deer, is chased by a tiger at the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger reserve near Nagpur in the Indian State of Maharashtra. The battle went on for 24 hours, with the deer escaping three times before finally falling prey to the tiger.           ******************************

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