Life in the wild for animals is often depicted as a unending struggle for survival, where danger lurks at every turn. But playing out alongside those daily life-and-death dramas are lesser-seen moments of apparent compassion - ones that defy easy explanation. While curiosity or playfulness fit fairly well into models of animal behavior, the idea of helping another species out through a desire to prevent suffering is one that meets plenty of resistance.
Is the animal sharing the instinct of mercy with human or is Everything we will see in this video of animal behavior is just a coincidence; and the law of the jungle and the survival of the fittest is the original principle ?
Let's watch the video and find out!
In this video, filmed at Budapest Zoo, and posted to YouTube by Aleksander Medveš.
a bear pauses his meal to rescue a crow that's
drowning in his enclosure.
Even the crow doesn’t seem to believe it!
Some online commentators have speculated the brown bear,
Vali, was planning to eat the crow, but changed her mind.
However, it certainly doesn't look like that to us, and indeed
the crow makes no effort to get away. Whether Vali's motivation
was simple
compassion, curiosity or a desire to have something to play
with isn't clear. the zoo's website for us.
They back the curiosity theory.
They add that hooded crows such as this one have been taking
over the zoo,
stealing meat from the lions and tigers Finally the site notes,
"the crow was lucky to meet Vali instead of the other tenant of
the paddock named Defoe, as the latter probably would have
had a taste of the black bird."
As a New York Times report revealed, the 30-second clip,
which went viral after it was posted on YouTube,
was artfully staged by the people behind Comedy Central series
Nathan for You.
Broadcast on Fox News, NBC Nightly News
and ABC Good Morning America,as well as posted on sites like
Gawker and The Huffington Post,
the video which has since been seen more than 7 million times
was, in reality, the result of work by animal trainers
and several crew members.
But in fact, although it is an artificial scene,
it shows the reaction of the pig towards seeing
an animal drowning.
We think it's an instinctive reaction even
if the pig hasn't been trained to do it. What do you think?
Cathy Smith, from the Orangutan Foundation,
said: "They are very intelligent animals and can be very inquisitive
"This shows how chilled out and good at problem solving
these amazing creatures are.
"It's hard to say whether he knew he would be saving the chick
but you never know.
I have never heard of anything like this before."
The curious ape was in its enclosure, when it noticed the bird's
struggle in the pond.It yanked a leaf from a nearby bush
and extended its arm out to the bird,
beckoning to the chick in the hope that it will latch onto the leaf.
Onlookers cheered as orangutan managed to get the bird
to grip the leaf for a split second only to have the bird drop again.
In a last-ditch attempt to rescue the chick the orangutan gently
waved the leaf in front of the bird which managed to latch on to it.
The ape plucked the bird from the water to the delight of
the crowd.
During the clip, one woman can be heard exclaiming:
"Oh my God look, that is unbelievable, he's got him."
The massive ape carried the chick back to the main part of
its enclosure, where it tenderly placed it down on the grass
and proceeded to gently stroke the bird.
It's like he's doing a rescue and resuscitation operation to get the water out of his lungs.
Hippos saving deer from crocodiles and helping it to safety.
Hippos are tough, aggressive animals with huge teeth,
killer bites, thick skin, a nasty attitude,
and are the African animal responsible
for the most human deaths every year.
Hippopotamuses are some of the most dangerous animals
in the world, as they can be unpredictably irritated
and will become aggressive easily.
It's hard to say whether hippo knew he would be saving
the impala but you never know,
It would be easy to proffer some reductive explanation;
the hippo is not concerned with the other animal but,
being notoriously aggressive and territorial,
is merely concerned with attacking the predator.
Such reductive answers presuppose that animals are incapable
of acting other than on instinct.
At first reading this seems reasonable but look again,
sometimes the crocodile is already in the water and the Hippo
does not attack until a prey animal is attacked by the crocodile.
Of course we can never really know
an animals motivation but we should not be too ready
to jump to reductive explanations.
The Deer was obviously exhausted
and it seemed as if the hippos sensed its fear
of the whole ordeal.
They calmly kept close by to deer but he seemed
to have spooked and picked up a second wind
changing direction and seeking another escape route.
The hippos followed until he reached the shore and managed
to get himself out of the water but we wonder what his final
outcome would be if with the damage he endured.
What do you think? tell us on comments.
The big cat was seen gripping its paws and front legs around
the impala ram in Kruger National Park, South Africa.
'It started suffocating it,
and the impala went down after a minute whilst the leopard
maintained its grip on the impala's neck.'
The leopard looked to have secured its meal,
holding the animal down on the ground
with the help of its powerful jaws,
This is the moment a hungry Cheetah went in for the kill
but Luckily for the impala,
the baboons that were close by became agitated
and started making a commotion.
- Although leopards love baboons like children love cake -
But grouping them together gives them the power advantage
This scared the leopard and He ran away
from the angry baboons group
However, growth in herbivore populations without predators
to keep them in check can have dramatic impacts on
an ecosystem.
Predators not only control actual population numbers,
but also create a landscape of fear which means that their prey
change their behavior because of the threat.
and In disbelief, see how the impala groggily stood upright
and on unsteady hooves, disappeared, lucky to be alive,
thanks to a group of baboons nearby
In this video, we will watch incredible footage
showing some rare interactions of three different groups
of animals, zebras, crocodiles and hippos
when they meet in one place.
An unsuspecting group of Zebras sauntered down to the water’s
edge for a drink when a huge crocodile jumped right out
and immediately grabbed one of the zebras,
its jaws locked on the animal leg.
at first, the crocodile tries to pull the Zebra into the water
to drown it, but the energetic zebra resists by heaving itself far onto the banks of the water hole.
As eight minutes pass, the crocodile pulls the tiring Zebra
farther into the water until drained from the struggle, is submerged to its haunches.
The hippos close by seemed to be very perturbed
by what was happening and it looked for a moment as if they
also wanted to join in on this kill. They kept the zebra surrounded and it all looked like a pretty hopeless situation.
The zebra was obviously exhausted and it seemed as if the hippos sensed its fear of the whole ordeal.
They calmly kept close by to crocodiles but he seemed to have
spooked and picked up a second wind changing direction
and seeking another escape, route.
The hippos followed until he reached the shore and managed
to get himself out of the water but we wonder what his final outcome would be if with the damage he endured.
It was exciting to watch in the beginning but then a deep sense
of sadness overcame everyone. Nature can be cruel but the circle of life must go on.
It's difficult not to succumb to the anthropromorphism
of animals when they are seen doing things
which are natural for them, which would mean far more to us
as humans, if there were some sense of empathy or altruism being shown.
Many animals of different species will protect the young offspring of another, given that protecting infants is a hardwired
instinct, and baby animals provoke this response , due to their
disproportionately by design, with their large eyes, smaller size,
pitious cries.
The Tanzania National Parks
official Twitter account posted the video
in which a lioness is seen walking side by side
with a plucky wildebeest calf half her size as she escorted the baby animal back to safety in the Serengeti National Park.
When a rival lioness appears on the scene,
the big cat turns protector, putting its own life at risk to save the little antelope.
Such behaviour is highly unusual and has led Pascal Shelutete,
the spokesman for the Tanzania National Parks Authority,
to tell the BBC the lioness' maternal instincts must have overcome her natural predatory instincts.
Lions are 'generalist hypercarnivores', meaning the overwhelming majority of their diet consists of meat and is not limited to any one species or type of animal.
Most of animals (except for some animals like some species of snakes, who eat up their own babies,
but they have an evolutionary advantage of having many eggs).
You don't need your parents or religion to let you make out the difference
between good and bad and feel the pain of others.
What wildlife officials described as an "act of love". What do you think of this video and the previous videos? Is the animal sharing the instinct of mercy with human or all of what we saw in this video is purely coincidental? please tell us on comments