WHAT WOULD MAKE A PELICAN DANCE?

Besides a pelican of the opposite sex. Maybe he's Jonathan Livingstone Pelican. It's too bad that book/movie has fallen into oblivion.

What a great story about overcoming the mundane. About challenging oneself to achieve greatness. About being an inspiration to others. I also think there were some religious overtones, but it has been too long since I read it. I even taught it in a course called Literature of the Supernatural.

But why aren't there seagulls and pelicans and even cows and pigs that could do so much more than hunt and eat. And live for the day. And take and take and never give. And never care for others. And never think of a higher being (other than the ones who may be food providers).

Why can't there be more dancing pelicans and Jonathan L. Seagulls? And people who will take up a cross and follow?