Stories of animal love
The baby elephant’s mournful roar was heart-warming. It and its mother, Ma Shwe, were wading across the Taungdwin River (now in Myanmar) when they suddenly got stuck in the flood. The mother elephant rushed forward to try to save her baby, but it was not easy.
However, with all the strength of a mother’s love, Ma Shwe did a miracle: she used her trunk to lift the baby elephant up, then stood up on her hind legs and placed her baby on the edge of a rock. But then Ma Shwe was thrown backwards and swept away by the flood.
Jim Williams, the elephant keeper at the elephant camp, had no way to save the mother elephant, so he struggled to save the baby. He said: “I will never forget the mournful roars that expressed the love of the mother elephant.” Luckily, Ma Shwe escaped the flood, and it ran through the forest, roaring as it ran for the baby to hear. In the morning, the mother and child were together again.
The blind cat’s friend
Perhaps no one has ever heard of this story: Two stray cats knew how to wrap their tails around each other to find their way. After catching them, people discovered that one was… blind. The sighted cat acted as a guide and always moved forward slowly. People named the blind cat Tommy and its friend Tyson. After that, both were taken to an animal sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, USA. This is where people still see their close friendship.
Rescuing a trapped child
A baby dolphin trapped by Richard O’Barry, a marine mammal expert. In fact, he just wanted to catch a big dolphin to train for a TV show. At first, O’Barry did not know that he had trapped a newborn dolphin, but its mother knew exactly that, so she and two other adult dolphins rushed to save her baby. “They tried their best to push the baby dolphin out, despite the risk of getting themselves caught in the net,” O’Barry said. Despite their efforts, they were helpless, so O’Barry had to cut the net for them.Without delay, the mother dolphin, assisted by two other female dolphins, guided the baby dolphin to the surface to take a breath.
Dog Love
It could be said that it was love at first sight. When two Esquimaux dogs named Misha and Maria met for the first time, Misha jumped over another dog to meet Maria. Then they happily chased each other around Maria’s owner’s room. Misha’s owner, who lived nearby, came to fetch him home. But just an hour later, Misha returned to find Maria and led her out. Once free, the two wandered together to Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA. “Dogs rarely choose their own mates,” Thomas said. But Misha and Maria did it. Their love was so strong that when Maria gave birth, Misha acted like a male wolf, bringing food back and burping it for her children. It should be known that in the wolf world, the act of vomiting food for children is a manifestation of devoted love.
Monkeys give way
The monkeys kept in cages had a vending machine to play with: they put coins into the slot to get a piece of cake. Every monkey could do it, except Beulah. Professor of biology Hal Markowitz, San Francisco State University, California, said: “Beulah kept throwing coins but they didn’t get them in the slot. Maybe she was clumsy or wanted to be pampered by some monkey.” And Beulah caught the eye of a male monkey named Rocky. Seeing that she was unsuccessful, Rocky decided to take action, and when the cake was pushed out, Rocky gave it all to Beulah.
The Funeral of a Monkey
The gorilla Babs had a very happy life. For many years, she was the most pampered female in the group. But when she fell ill, her happy days ended. She was always lying in one place. The staff at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago began opening the door inside the cage so that the other apes could come and go to visit. They acted very “human” in caring for the sick ape. After Babs died, the other apes walked past her body to touch and sniff her one last time, then sat by her lifeless body, just like a human funeral home. Babs’s little daughter, Bana, crouched next to her mother’s body, her head on her arm and her arms around her neck.