Pelicans are a symbol of empathy, nobility and goodness. The given symbolic depiction of a mother pelican feeding the little ones denotes a legend originated prior to Christianity. According to the legend, the mother pelican, to save her babies from starving, wounded herself with the beak to feed them her blood. It is apt to remember here, the lines of Shakespeare (1616) in Hamlet, “To his good friend thus wide, I’ll open my arms / And, like the kind, life-rendering pelican / Repast them with my
