Good morning fellow Steemians.

I usually find nature very fascinating and quite uncanny as well. Over the years, man's many developments, inventions and innovations were made as a result of the inspiration he drew from nature (animals). Examples of such innovations include but are not limited to the following:

Invention	Inspiration	Image
Aeroplane	Birds
Submarine	Fish & bats
Adhesive	Gecko
Robot that walks on water	water strider
Portable X-ray machines	Lobster	nil

Sources: Source1, Source2, Source3
...and so on. This process of drawing inspiration from nature(animals) for innovation is called Biomimickry. But this is not my focus at the moment.

Also, apart from inventions and innovations, other inspirations can come from nature, specifically animals. For example, the Bible used the story of ants which gather in summer in preparation for winter to advice us on planning and hard work.

I got that kind of inspiration today, but it was not from ants and surely, it was not the same message.

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Today, I stumbled on a picture online that got me thinking; the inspiration I gathered from it was of a colossal nature.

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The picture shows a toad while it was swallowing a snake -a small snake. Strange right?

Inspiration

Since I was born, I have never heard of or seen a toad swallowing a snake. So seeing it today gave me the shock of my life. I had learnt previously from biology classes and other sources that in the food chain, the snake is above the toad. The known predators of snake to me were other snakes, birds and man. But in the picture, it portrays the story of the predator being the prey. But why is it so?
It is clear to me that from the picture, that the reason why the toad could consume the snake despite it being a natural prey of its meal, is because the snake was not fully grown; yeah it was a small snake.

From the picture, a lot of inspiration can be drawn which would be developed upon. But look at this;

If the snake were to be fully grown, which do you think would have been the prey?

The toad or snake?

You'd almost surely say the toad right? And I will agree with that too.

As long as a predator is not given the opportunity to grow, it will remain a prey.

Now, look at the sentence above figuratively, and apply it to yourself and then ask yourself

"What are those things that if I let to grow, will end up 'eating' me?"

I will leave you now to answer the question for now. I will subsequently share the inspirations I got from the picture in series if necessary..

Cheers.

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