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Defying Nature

I spent the morning watching “Animal Planet”, that ‘of-course’ was while washing clothes. But this was one of the most memorable documentaries i ever watched. The title said “The heart of a Lioness”.

This lioness, a loner by chance, (somehow) caught a baby Oryx (an antelope cousin), but mystifyingly it did not strangle the baby oryx by its neck, as is expected by a lioness in the wild. Strangely she picked up the baby in its jaws, like it wud’ve picked up a cub, and took it with her. What was even more strange was the baby oryx nibbling on the lioness’s ear, later.

Lions hunt once every 3-4 days and usually 4 days is pretty long for a lion to not have eaten anything. But this lioness spent 17 days with the oryx, never allowing it to wander out of her sight, saving it from other predators. It was an amazing pair of mother-baby (pseudo), while both belonged to such opposite species…. the predator & prey.

The lioness and the oryx both kept growing weak each day due to hunger, but did not get separated. Finally, a male lion got to the baby oryx and ended the rare relation, while the weak lioness could not even dare to confront the lion. (Cruel Males huh!).

The whole documentary is shot wonderfully, with such a touching story…. a rare display of a relationship no one could have thought of. The lioness, anyways was documented to have adopted 4 more oryx cubs… while none of the relations survived more than a week….

Exemplary legend.
The lioness could have been a true ambassador for adoption programmes across the globe!!