Relationship Between Humans And Animals Essay

The relationship between humans and animals is in some cases, mutual. However, it is domestication that has caused a gap between the true communication and companionship between man and all animals. Humans have domesticated animals in order to establish a relationship with them. We as a species have evolved, but in that process of change we have also isolated ourselves. The natural connections animals have between themselves and with nature are baffling to humans. I believe the cause of this confusion is because we as a species do not have these connections. If we would try to connect with animals and nature, instead of try to evolve from the primitive being we once were, we would see how simple it is to live life as animals do. Many animals can sense disturbances and disasters before they arrive, but we humans would need technology in order to forecast rain. This essay will describe the connection between humans and animals. As illustrated by evidence from Virgil’s Georgic: Book IV, The Seafarer, Medieval Bestiary: The Ant’s Nature, and Medieval Bestiary: The Fox’s …show more content…
The man in the poem says, “At times the swan’s song I took to myself as pleasure, the gannet’s noise and the voice of the curlew instead of the laughter of men, the singing gull, instead of the drinking of mead.” This shows that the man who was thought to be weakened by being thrown into nature with animals, has found a way to still find happiness. This shows man's natural connection to animals in nature that could not be seen while living in cities. The seafarer became friends with the “singing” birds, which helped keep him sane while at sea. An occurrence that was surely not predicted to have happened when he was excommunicated. It was the sea farers connection to animals that kept him alive and gave him reason to live, other than his love of God, and hope to find a new