Page 73 - Devotion Among Animals Revealing the Work of God

Many species of birds nest in colonies.
In the picture below, there are 70 eggs
for every square meter, but the birds
can always find their own eggs and
young when they return from feeding.

Above: The rain-bird wets its breast feathers when the day is hot in order to cool
its eggs. Below left: The albatross. Below right: The fairy tern does everything its
eggs require during incubation. As these pictures demonstrate, birds tend their
eggs carefully. They build nests to protect them and never leave them unattended.
Beyond doubt, it is God, their sustainer and protector, Who inspires them to do so.

is self-evident that God, the All-Knowing and All-Wise, has created these
physical and behavioral characteristics in frogs, letting them be in har-
mony with one another as well as all the other living things. God, the
Infinitely Compassionate and Merciful, protects all babies and offspring.
God has given the instincts of protection and compassion not only to

the creatures mentioned here. Similarly, the eggs and larvae of ants, ter-
mites, bees and other colony-forming insects are the central point of their

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