Animal Qualities
Guard what grows.
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.
3 species
Species principle: Stewardship
Guard what grows.
Protection becomes sacred when you choose to guard what is still becoming.
Greater Rheas are flightless grassland birds. Males build nests, incubate eggs from multiple females, and guard the chicks after hatching.
Species principle: High Care
Protect from above.
Care becomes stronger when you can see the bigger picture.
Storks use height, nesting sites, long movement, and careful feeding to protect and raise their young.
Species principle: Strange Care
Carry them strangely.
Care does not have to look familiar to be complete.
Surinam Toads carry fertilized eggs embedded in pockets of the female’s back skin, where young develop before emerging as small toads.
