Biomimicry

Mankind has been directed to borrow good qualities and ways from wild animals and learn a lesson from them

"According to some accounts, mankind has been directed to borrow various good qualities and ways from wild animals, and to learn a lesson from these. Since it is permissible to imitate virtues of dumb animals, it is certainly far more so to borrow material sciences and techniques from foreign peoples, who at least belong to the human race and are distinguished by judgment and the power of speech. And if it be contended that such praiseworthy qualities are inborn in animals, by what proof can they claim that these essential principles of civilization, this knowledge and these sciences current among other peoples, are not inborn? Is there any Creator save God? Say: Praised be God!"

('Abdu'l-Bahá, Secret of Divine Civilization, p. 30, written in context of trying to persuade the people of Persia to accept aspects of modernization from the West)