About month ago there was a similar documentary on Animal Planet about a friendship between helpless young antelope and old hungry lion. The old lion was following a newly born antelope for more than a week to protect it while it finds its herd. Lion wasn’t eating nothing for a days but newer tried to eat that helpless creature.
This amazing story will show you how even animals have a compassion and even they are not just instinctive killers as we believed they are.
Here you can see a similar case from Masai Mara, Kenya where a few of guepards found young impala that was obviously lost its herd. As you can see, they didn’t eat it they rather tried to help it to find its relatives.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
I’m SO glad the last picture didn’t say “LUNCH”!
January 30th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Those are cheetahs, not “guepards”
January 30th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Is it not impossible to fathom that the guepards were simply allowing the impala to lead them back to the pack, thereby increasing the available food amount from a simply baby impala to a whole herd of them?
I’m tellin’ ya, them guepards is smart. In the words of the venerable fish face, “It’s a trap!”
January 30th, 2010 at 3:25 am
Awesome. I have coyote that lets birds land on it’s back living in my yard.
January 30th, 2010 at 3:25 am
this article is full of fail:
“Lion wasn’t eating nothing”
“they are not just instinctive killers as we believed they are”
” As you can see, they didn’t eat it they rather tried to help it to find its relatives.”
and animals do not feel compassion, they eat when hungry and don’t when not hungry. These animals happen to not see the tiny impala as a good meal.
January 30th, 2010 at 6:32 am
They are just waiting for it to grow, nice and plump
January 30th, 2010 at 11:38 am
I assume this is translated from french hence the use of the french for cheetah “guepard” and the other language mistakes.
January 30th, 2010 at 11:57 am
I hate to say it but … how it ended wasn’t shown.
The last photograph did say lunch.
I saw it this morning in the newspaper.
The impala ran away and the lions went after it and ate it up.
I’m sure there’re some photographs online.
Sorry.
January 30th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
“animals do not feel compassion”
Really. Humans are animals, you know. Have you honestly never had a dog or a cat? Animal owners will tell you that their pets are very capable of emotion and do show compassion.
Whether or not these particular predators are using the baby impala, or showing genuine compassion, is an open question. But it’s well known that animals do show emotion, so we can’t rule it out.
There are many scientific articles about this subject available on the web. Emotional behavior in non-humans might also be broached in biology textbooks, since it’s an old subject.
January 30th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
And then, the refrigerator was invented.
January 30th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Predators only eat when they are hungry. Animals are also known for playing with their future meal before they eat it. They were keeping it around until they were ready. Either that or watch it spoil after the kill.
January 31st, 2010 at 1:47 am
bambi what have you done?
January 31st, 2010 at 7:18 am
Those pictures really looked Shopped. You better double check.
January 31st, 2010 at 7:51 am
It looks like it was made by photoshop. This pictures doesn’t look real at all!
February 1st, 2010 at 12:13 am
Darkray16
These animals happen to not see the…. is not correct, you should have said : ” these animals happen NOT TO SEE the…” ok ????
February 1st, 2010 at 12:18 am
why everyone here is just trying to say : it’s photoshop…,it’s playing with meal before eating it…wh don’t u just believe in strange things happened in the universe ?? it’s the power of GOD , why don’t u just believe in it selfish ones????????????
February 1st, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Maybe they are allowing it to get bigger.
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:15 am
“it’s the power of GOD”
That just made me crack up. I dare you to walk into a lion’s den at lunchtime and pray
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:13 am
last pic is shopped
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:56 am
“…yes, precious… lead me back to your herd…. MUAHHAHHAHHAHHA!!!!” (Oh: And what the hell is a “guepard” anyway? A gay leopard?)
Gond
February 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 am
okay, so great story, except, spell check and use correct grammar, double negatives just make you sound ridiculous.
February 9th, 2010 at 11:45 am
This is b******. They might’ve toyed with the thing for a little while but I guarantee his ass was lunchmeat at some point that day. when they finally got hungry it was over.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:03 am
They’re like us, people, when we find a little fish and get him back into the water, and try catch something big to eat.