---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote :
It's those *crazy hormones*. The lioness probably had a false pregnancy.
Not this time. I have seen other accounts of a different species protect the
offspring of a mother it had just killed. This tells me that initial killing is
out of necessity (hunger) and not for bloodlust. It also indicates an innate,
interspecies understanding of the helplessness of young animals which there is
a sort of universal need to respect. This cross-species bonding or seemingly
empathetic set of behaviors is pretty extraordinary. And yes, for all the
cynics out there there are all sorts of examples of seemingly random and
indiscriminate "cruelty" within nature. Take domestic cats for example...
No babies but that strong motherly instinct to nurture and protect. I had an
English Setter that used to go through this every time she came into *season*.
Sixty-three days later she adopted all kinds of stuffed toys to cuttle and try
to nurse. She even adopted my telephone once and would whimper and cry when it
began ringing. Another one that I placed with friends in San Antonio once went
next door and killed a mother cat and brought her kittens home to raise!
On Sunday, April 6, 2014 6:50 AM, "awoelflebater@..."
wrote:
http://www.viralnova.com/baby-baboon-lion-ordeal/
http://www.viralnova.com/baby-baboon-lion-ordeal/
