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"I’ve noticed that just about every wildlife program anthropomorphizes animals.”

I know what you mean. It used to be cute that these type program "anthropomorphizing" animals to make urban audiences better relate to animals in the wild but now it has reached to levels that animals ARE people.

Nope, they aren't

Mostly because animals have no rights(not like humans) and they do not recognize the rights of others.

Mammals do however, have "emotions" inbred in the mammalian part of their brains to care and feed their offspring. Whether this is "worrying" can be debatable.

When my father was a young boy, he was playing with a piglet which started to squeak. The mother sow heard it and charged my father and was on top of him and torn at his ear. His father came running and knocked the big sow off him.(No mean feat if you ever saw a adult hog.) My grandfather warmed Dad if he hadn't been there to get the sow off him, it would have killed him. My dad believed him and stayed away from playing with the piggies!

Our dad told us this tale at dinner one night after we told him what we were doing all afternoon. We were playing "rodeo' with a bunch of piglets.(Catching them and tying them up)

We found something else to do the next day.

I’d say your grandfather had a huge adrenalin rush from fear when he saw the sow attack your dad! Your dad was fortunate he was within earshot.

A lot of people don’t know that it’s not uncommon for sows to eat their own litters. Apparently they aren’t all born with maternal instincts.

Not long ago I was watching a nature program when they showed something that shocked me. A fox kit died and they showed the mother fox eating the body. I wasn’t shocked that it happened but that it was shown. That kind of reality isn’t common.