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Tarra the elephant and Bella the dog found each other at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee in 2003. Newly arriving elephants normally choose another elephant as a companion. But, Tarra chose Bella and the feelings were quite mutual. They spent all their years eating together, playing together and sleeping together. When Bella was in the clinic with a spinal injury in 2010, Tara stood vigil outside the clinic for three weeks, rather than roam the sanctuary’s 2,700 acres. Bella was brought out to the balcony one day to at least see Tarra. She was so happy to see her companion, that it was decided they would bring her outside to be with Tarra for a short visit. Tarra took her giant elephant foot and gently pet Bella across her whole body over and over. On October 26, 2011, Bella was attacked by a coyote and died in the woods. Tarra searched and found Bella’s body. She carried her best friend back to the spot they had spent most of their time together and mourned the death of her dearest companion. A hunter in Indonesia told the story of the last day he hunted gibbons. A gibbon (monkey) was up in a tree and he shot her several times. She would not die or drop down out of the tree until he had four bullets in her. When she dropped, he saw she was holding her baby. The hunter was shocked when the mother gibbon was crying “like a human” while clutching her baby with her blood soaked arms. Moments before she died, she held her baby out to the man until he took the baby into his arms. He never hunted again. This kind of love of a mother for her child is far from being just a human emotion.
When The Power Of Love Overcomes The Love Of Power Shirt
There are stories from around the globe of mother cows going to great lengths to protect and be with their babies. In one town in England, a mother cow and her newborn calf were sold at auction. Unfortunately, they were sold to different farms 35 miles apart. The mother wailed as her baby was taken from her. The next morning the farmer who had purchased the mother went out to his barn and found that not only was the mother cow gone, but she had broken through a barn door and a latched gate. That morning he got a call from the auctioneer. The farmer who bought the calf said that when he went out to the barn in the morning, the door was smashed and the mother calf was resting with her nursing calf. She had managed to escape the other farm and find her way across 35 miles of unfamiliar territory to her baby.There is a crazy and false myth about chickens not being smart or brave. They are in fact some of the most intelligent and caring animals in our big animal family. Chickens communicate with their unhatched offspring. By the time a chick is born, he or she and the mother hen understand each other’s complex language completely. They will risk their lives to protect their children from any danger. There is a call that is specific to a predator coming from the air and one for any danger coming on the ground. If the chicks are too far away to hear the danger call, hens have been witnessed racing to the chicks and covering them with their body to protect them from hawks and other predators.
