Tanzania, July 27 -- George Bernard Shaw made the following observation: "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."

Flipping through my WhatsApp messages, I was captivated by one video post in which, lions were collaborating in a hunt. I paused to watch what was a really intense moment of life and death. The lionesses took the lead, with their matriarch seemingly guiding them along every step. A dazzle of zebras, fifty meters away, were unaware of the plan. In a split second, the lead lioness crushed one zebra into the ground. The rest joined to finish the job.

As the zebra wriggled for its last breadth, a male lion appeared with a roar that sent the lionesses sca...