Posted on 07/16/2023 10:21:07 AM PDT by allen592
The bond between a mother and her newborn is one of the purest forms of love. This was beautifully captured when a mother seal reacted in the sweetest way possible after realizing her newborn baby was not dead.
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Pretty cool.
Of course, it could be 11 am and mom’s saying “Get up, you lazy layabout! We’ve got to go catch lunch.” There’s no welfare office, SNAP or EBT for seals.
What is sentience, really? I think many animals are sentient.
Are we sure it wasn’t: “You’ve been asleep all morning. I told you yesterday to mow the lawn!”
Been said Siamese cats can exhibit the intelligence of a 2 year old human. Some dog breeds like Border Collies are as smart as human kids.
And moments before the seal was inconsolable yelling Dingo Ate my Baby!
Anyone with a heart not made of stone will be so touched by this chimp mom who thought her newborn was gone/died.
Quite a few grown humans exhibit the intelligence of a 2 year old human.
Quite a few grown humans exhibit the intelligence of a 2 year old human.
Awww...just read that the baby chimp did die only a few weeks later after this video from some kind of head trauma. So sad.
I think mothers among all mammals, land or sea, form varying strong bonds with their offspring; some only till the offspring is weened, some much longer and some for life.
With some reptiles and fishes mothers do not even see their offspring, leaving once the eggs are laid (or released) and not even around when the infants hatch.
Maybe the bonding difference is comes from how most mammals are so developmentally immature at birth that they must (for survival) be weened by their mothers initially, while many reptiles and fishes are off on thier own at birth.
Familiar with both. Guy is off by many years. Such smart greeds.
Breeds.
That went so blurry FAST. WOW
Too cool.
Siamese cats and Border Collies are far smarter than your average Democrat.
Same.
All the while...millions of human mothers purposely amd knowingly murder their babies and get away with it.
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