Prompt 55. Sometimes humans are defined as tool-using animals. Nowadays, the scientists talk about chimps both making and using tools, but, hey, we're Number One! Tools in their chests, drawers, and wallracks; tools scattered on the table; tools used and unused, new and old; tools of love, tools of war, tools of work, tools of play. Tools can say a lot.
Animals have tools, yet they can't be seen. You can't touch them or see them but they exist. They have love for their young, and skills to nurture. Their sense of smell is their best tool. It keeps them alive and finds them food. Their hearing, warns them from miles away of any coming danger. Their growl or vicious bark is a tool of self protection. Their kindness, ability to comfort, their loyalty, and unconditional love is the tool that domesticates them. Human's could learn a lot from them. Are we really number one?
This is 'assignment' writing--a person has an idea and runs with it enough to finish an assignment and with luck mollify the teacher. But for me, it's a bit generic, a bit too much of the student, not enough of the writer.
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