Feeding Kois
Just recently, I learned that the man-made lake at Nuvali was designed by my best buddy, who was the engineer in charge of the project. We would normally stop by the place en route to Tagaytay to stretch our legs and to simply enjoy the site of those Koi fishes, probably more than a thousand of them. They have a booth where you could buy some fish feed so that kids (and adults too) could toss it over the water in order to see how the fishes go berserk over the pellets as pictured here.
At the time this picture was taken, we were there on a school field trip (my mom owns a small school) and we wanted to show the kids the fishes and how they feed.
Aside from the usual travel blog stuff associated in describing a nice tourist place, I simply want to focus on the concept of fishes competing for food pellets. Nature taught us that competition is inevitably the solution to yield the best gene pool. True. Which in turn, as time goes by, would mean more chances of survival as a species. I am no biologist, but it doesn’t take to be a scientist to grasp this basic concept.
Some Kois were small, while some were larger, an indication of the competition concept at work. One kid told her mom, “Ma, let’s feed those fishes over there because they look small and hungry”. The mom obliged and threw pellets on that direction. Surprisingly, what used to be a less dense group of Kois was immediately overwhelmed from all sides by the larger ones. At this point, the kid probably realized that throwing the pellets in any direction at random would simply shift the focus of the Kois regardless of the size.
This scenario is the same everywhere on any species, including us. This small lake reminds me of people trapped in a society that thrives from scraps from those who have the “pellets”. In the workplace, especially if you work for the government, it is usually the case. Even in a corporate setting, everyone has the same goal of outwitting another “Koi” for personal gains. Those ones with the pellets decide where to throw. While we, who patiently wait for scraps, compete on who will get the most. It’s the natural order of things. Good or bad? Your answer would depend if you belong to the larger Koi group or to the smaller ones.
At the time this picture was taken, we were there on a school field trip (my mom owns a small school) and we wanted to show the kids the fishes and how they feed.
Aside from the usual travel blog stuff associated in describing a nice tourist place, I simply want to focus on the concept of fishes competing for food pellets. Nature taught us that competition is inevitably the solution to yield the best gene pool. True. Which in turn, as time goes by, would mean more chances of survival as a species. I am no biologist, but it doesn’t take to be a scientist to grasp this basic concept.
Some Kois were small, while some were larger, an indication of the competition concept at work. One kid told her mom, “Ma, let’s feed those fishes over there because they look small and hungry”. The mom obliged and threw pellets on that direction. Surprisingly, what used to be a less dense group of Kois was immediately overwhelmed from all sides by the larger ones. At this point, the kid probably realized that throwing the pellets in any direction at random would simply shift the focus of the Kois regardless of the size.This scenario is the same everywhere on any species, including us. This small lake reminds me of people trapped in a society that thrives from scraps from those who have the “pellets”. In the workplace, especially if you work for the government, it is usually the case. Even in a corporate setting, everyone has the same goal of outwitting another “Koi” for personal gains. Those ones with the pellets decide where to throw. While we, who patiently wait for scraps, compete on who will get the most. It’s the natural order of things. Good or bad? Your answer would depend if you belong to the larger Koi group or to the smaller ones.
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