If Pigs and Hens

 Read a delightful article about a pig and a chicken in a rescue centre, making fast friends. I wondered, also, that if pigs and chickens get along and become friends, how come we humans do such as wars and protests and insurrections and disputes: on and on. We often can't get along with neighbours let alone, political confrontations and meetings in government upon which our livings depend. What's missing  that prevents us from something as simple as living together peaceably in spite of marked disimilarities that should peke our interest rather than focus on the differences.  I landed on a possible solution: "words". Words are the "money" that enriches or impoverishes us. Words, or the equivalent, are vitally important to the need to understand each other. It's true that in marriage, it's often a problem when there is no communication or that violence instead of communication is used to express a concern. In the animal kingdom, words are not present between species which is a kind of non-communication that in actions, speak. At times, it, too, involves violence rather than communication much like shouting does. We have to use words but gentle actions as well, along with the words, to show that it is safe to communicate. In the case with the pig and the chicken, the chicken came to share with the pig, its food and then it hopped on the back of the pig and groomed it. Perhaps to show gratitude and return the favour of the food.  Grooming in this instance was cleaning the pigs fur and perhaps plucking out insects as do monkeys and apes among other animal examples. Perhaps we humans should use our words instead of what animals use such as beaks and paws, to comfort each other.  Feeling words that are kind and caring rather than accusing, demanding and hurting could work. Nice words in the human world are "grooming". Grooming is helping and assisting and showing care and concern for others. If this huge pig and its small companion found friendship, so can we.