Just like in the wild world an animal instinct refers to the survival fundamental of satisfying the basic needs of food, water and shelter in the human world everything revolves around these basic needs. In fact we also inherit the animal instincts such as pride, safety, anger, fear, revolt, pleasure and love. Although human nature is directly linked to the animal instincts, human abilities mark them apart from other animals by the ways of handling situations in a special way.
There cannot be a better example of the survival instinct in animals than the documentary I watched on Discovery channel sometime back. It was an amateur video shot by tourists in the African Savanna. This video showed a one of its kind battle between a herd of buffaloes, a pride of lions and two crocodiles. It was an exceptional conflict because mighty buffaloes who rescued their calf from the mouth of the lions and the crocodiles. There was a conflict of emotions of safety among the buffaloes, hunger and pride among the lions, fear of the calf and opportunity of the crocodiles that clashed in this fight. The animal instinct to revolt, or fight for pride are not taught in school but are inborn traits. We are no exceptions, we experience conflicts in our everyday life from office, school, to home. We get in conflicts with our parents, siblings, friends, neighbors, boss, children, in laws at one point or the other. Conflicts occur when there is a clash of interests and emotions of one another. Visible conflicts depict loud voices; strong emotions, assaults and visible tension while invisible conflicts are displayed in the form of stress, silence and unseen trauma. Visible or invisible conflicts create long-term rifts, and misunderstandings.
