Chinese Water Dragon
Species principle: Escape Timing
Leap to water.
Endurance can begin with one clean leap away from danger.
Chinese Water Dragons are arboreal and riverbank lizards that can leap into water and swim to escape threats.
Animal Qualities
Instinct
Leap to water.
Animals grouped here express a similar quality through their behavior in nature. Each species still has its own principle, lesson, meaning, and field-guide page.
4 species
Senegal Bushbaby
Species principle: Night Reading
Read the dark.
The dark gets smaller when your senses know the route.
Senegal Bushbabies are nocturnal primates with large eyes, strong hindlimbs, and excellent jumping ability for moving through branches at night.
Snake
Species principle: Coiled Transformation
Shed the old skin.
Efficient power often comes from removing what is unnecessary and perfecting what remains.
Snakes use limbless movement, forked-tongue chemosensing, flexible skulls, shedding, coiling, venom or constriction, and ground contact to symbolize transformation, instinct, and hidden force.
Wood Stork
Species principle: Sensitivity
Feel with the bill.
The unseen can be found by the one sensitive enough to feel it.
Wood Storks forage in shallow wetlands by sweeping their open bills through water and snapping them shut rapidly when they touch prey.