[krsunny]

To me, meditation seems like an entirely self serving activity. As an analogy (and probably not a very good one) what if electrons began to meditate 60 minutes per day? They lose their charge and basically do nothing? Or what if birds and bees began to meditate? I think the result of all that would be pretty obvious.

[michaelochurch]

Your first error is assuming that meditation is "doing nothing". Meditation is an attempt to get past the shallow chatter of mostly negative thoughts that drains us, and closer to the deeper nature of mind.

Perhaps the electron, which fulfills its physical contract perfectly, is already in a state of pure meditation. Who knows?

As for whether animals meditate and what would happen if they did, I have no idea.

[locopati]

You could say something similar about sleep. Yet our bodies and minds need sleep to recharge. I could say something similar about meditation, but it's something you must experience. If you're curious, try it and see what happens, an experiment, as it were.