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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

MOTHER LOVE

Most mammals show what we, the human mammal,  would call "love" toward their off-spring.
It may not be "love" in the traditional sense. It probably is a programmed reflex, insuring the survival of the species. Maybe even our  "human emotion"  is also just a programmed reflex.
I don't know. I just think about it now and then.

When I see this behaviour in the wild, which seemingly has nothing to do with "the survival of the species" but in which the mother shows a patience and devotion to its babies which comes close to our concept of Love, I begin to wonder....



A mother Cheetah and her babies in the Serengeti, Tanzania.




Mother Love ? Mother Patience ?

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