Thought you might like this little (true) anecdote:
A number of years ago I was visiting a wildlife park near Adelaide which contained a large pond with an island in the centre. On this island were a number of cormorants drying their wings, and on the shore near where I was observing was another cormorant.
I noticed that one of the cormorants on the island was shaking its head violently, and at the same instant the one nearest me took off and headed over there to it - and removed with its beak a plastic bag from the other's head that it had somehow got its head stuck inside.
I thought at the time that this was amazing behaviour, because it must have been desperately trying to breathe with the bag on its head, and there was no way I could have got to the island in time to save it.
Somehow the cormorant realised that its friend was in trouble, and took the necessary action to save it.
To me this is classical Service to Others.
A number of years ago I was visiting a wildlife park near Adelaide which contained a large pond with an island in the centre. On this island were a number of cormorants drying their wings, and on the shore near where I was observing was another cormorant.
I noticed that one of the cormorants on the island was shaking its head violently, and at the same instant the one nearest me took off and headed over there to it - and removed with its beak a plastic bag from the other's head that it had somehow got its head stuck inside.
I thought at the time that this was amazing behaviour, because it must have been desperately trying to breathe with the bag on its head, and there was no way I could have got to the island in time to save it.
Somehow the cormorant realised that its friend was in trouble, and took the necessary action to save it.
To me this is classical Service to Others.