blog week 5

I just returned from a Safari Expedition in South Africa and I was able to see many wild animals in their natural habitat. In many instances, the groups of animals were the mother and children otherwise the males were primarily by themselves. I began to think about the discussions about how mothers should take care of their children and how they are more known to stay at home rather than go out into the workforce. In the animal world, the females are the ones to naturally take care of their children and to concern for their family. The guide today was telling us that the female was the head of the family in the group of elephants we saw and that when she were to assume this position until she died. Once she was no longer alive, the oldest daughter was to take over. I thought about this and was trying to relate it to humans and realized that it was more of nature’s way to have the mother take care of the children, not a sexist thing or a matter of who should or should not. In the ‘animal world’ this is simply done in terms of survival and I cannot see these roles changing, ever.