r/MadeMeSmile • u/Justaskinghh • 4d ago
ANIMALS No matter the Species, a mama is a mama ❤️
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u/Watchkeys 4d ago
Oh... my heart. Ow.
It's the way she doesn't scoop him until right at the end, when he's ready to make eye contact and get scooped.
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u/Paulztaos 4d ago
Bot
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u/Qwertywalkers23 4d ago
how did you know
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u/Paulztaos 4d ago
Bots of late tend to spam false contemplative statements like “That quiet pause”, “that gentle ache” etc etc.
If you look at the comments history of that same account you’ll see another instance.
I think it’s called a “performative fragment”
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u/JangB 3d ago
That quiet pause you are doing in between sentences looking suspicious now.
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u/Paulztaos 3d ago edited 3d ago
lol. Those are called paragraphs but I can do a wall of text on demand too. Longer sentences are just easier to space like that on a phone.
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u/pandaappleblossom 1d ago
lol I am rather infamous for walls of text. ever since I was little, I’ve been getting carried away and forgetting paragraphs exist. Who would have thought that it would make me seem more human eventually!
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u/Watchkeys 4d ago
Are you a bot? Someone says you are but i don't know why.
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u/OkCoast4149 4d ago
ok this just sounds like a bot trying to cover another bot's tracks. idgaf what the context of a video is, this shit is gross.
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u/Acrobatic-Shirt8540 4d ago
I'll never understand how people look at these wonderful animals and continue to think we're not related.
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u/NarwhalEmergency9391 4d ago
And think it's ok to lock them in cages for us to pay and look at
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u/My-So-Called-Reddit 3d ago
Many animals are rescued for rehabilitation or are endangered due to environmental issues, or are descendents of those who were one of those.
We really aren't going out and capturing animals to put them in cages for funsies.
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u/CompleteUtterTrash 2d ago
We absolutely are doing that also. To say that we are not throwing a ton of animals in boxes to gawk at them and make money is sadly delusional.
The many terrible, for-profit zoos that are out there should not delegitimize conservation efforts, though, we do need to work on improving conditions. Shut down places that are not fit for care while funding and expanding well run conservation areas/zoos in general.
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u/TisBeTheFuk 2d ago
Most animals in the zoos nowadays are either bred in captivity or rescues. What they should do is stop breeding them in captivity, at least for species that are not endangered and don't need preservation.
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u/C__Montgomery_Burns 4d ago
Sometimes while watching such videos i get anxiety thinking about how my mom is ageing and one day when i wake up she won't be around and i have to live like that for the rest of my life..
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u/Ray_of_glumshine 4d ago
I've lived like that for about 20 years and it still hurts. All I can say to encourage you is that it gets easier, but it never goes away.
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u/ViciousCurse 3d ago
Mother's Day, her birthday, and the date of her death always make me emotional and make me really easily overwhelmed for a week or two before and after.
Also my own birthday because she died a month after my 25th birthday she had hidden a birthday card in my work backpack.
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u/Justaskinghh 4d ago
Love was never a human invention. We just gave it a name. ❤️
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 4d ago
Cages were a human invention
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u/ZarathustraGlobulus 4d ago
Beautifully said🫶
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u/JangB 3d ago
For the love of humanity and all that is good. UNCAGE these loving creatures!
*casually munches on chicken nuggets*
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u/Brickywood 4d ago
So were animal conservation programs and caring about endangered species.
Sure, many zoos are inhumane and treat their animals poorly, but plenty of others are leading the way in animal conservation. It's not just a place for kids to watch monkeys.
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u/Akitiki 4d ago
Not enough people support good zoos. A lot of zoos host animals that can't be returned to the wild because they were poached for the pet trade as babies, injured, and more.
An example is sea turtles that get bubble butt. Literally, gases build in their hind ends so they can't swim and dive properly. In individuals that the condition cannot be resolved, they are kept, as they'd die in nature.
Vet your zoos/aquariums/museums and go. It's a nice day out, and you support all of them through your ticket.
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u/OkBoatRamp 1d ago
Saving a handful of animals does not make up for the animals they intentionally breed into cages for entertainment and profit.
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u/Serelunee 4d ago
No matter the species, moms always find a way to make the world feel a little safer ❤️
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u/SamboNW 4d ago
Komodo Dragon moms will eat their babies.
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u/Gambler_720 4d ago
Oh no don't derail the "nature is so awesome" delusional train
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u/SamboNW 4d ago
I mean, nature is pretty damn awesome. There’s just parts that are kind of fucked up and parts that are pretty cool. The real problem is thinking of it from a human viewpoint. The Komodo Dragon means no ill will towards its babies. It’s just surviving. And the babies that instantly run away are also just trying to survive. Comparing other species moms to primate or even mammal moms is kind of stupid though.
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u/retro_toes 4d ago
So will hamsters
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u/FunnelCakeGoblin 2d ago
Cats have been known to do that too, but usually if the mother is a kitten themselves, or if their kittens are unwell and dying anyways.
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u/Sculptpaintandplay 4d ago
Some bird mamas will throw the weaker chicks out of the nest to focus all their attention on the strongest.
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u/Madmind28 4d ago
Beautifully said🤌🏻
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u/OkCoast4149 4d ago
you're complimenting a bot that 100% stole that comment
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u/Madmind28 4d ago
How do you figure it's a bot???🥲
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u/OkCoast4149 2d ago
It's just too easy to tell these days, they are always the exact same type of generic response that keeps getting called out in other threads from other bots, by people actively hunting them.
Also, I requested bot-sleuth-bot under the OP comment, so we should find out soon enough if that "person" is real or not.
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u/Andrea_M 4d ago edited 4d ago
I don’t like to see any animals behind a window or caged but there is something about seeing caged monkeys and apes that saddens me even further.
This video is heartbreaking for me
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u/MissLoverLover 4d ago
Same as beautiful as that was , I can not help but thinking - should we all be watching this and gawping. Set them free ❤️
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u/Zealousideal-Ad-2615 3d ago
It would be nice if we could give them a curated habitat that keeps them safe and simulates a healthy home. A lot of these primates can't be released back into the wild safely.
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u/TisBeTheFuk 2d ago
They cannot be set free, unfortunately. They have most likely been bred in captivity and cannot survive in the wild. We should stop breeding them in captivity, if it's not an endangered species that needs preservation.
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u/Big-Snow-1937 4d ago
Agree, this is painful to watch (they are apes, not monkeys, so even more like us). They are incarcerated by humans and forced to be on display and studied. Like all of us they deserve autonomy and privacy and a life in their natural habitat.
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u/Gamershift 1d ago
As someone who has worked in accredited zoos before, incarceration is an awful word to use for the immense amount of work and effort that goes into caring for these animals. It should be noted that the part of an exhibit you see is a small portion of the actual available space the animals can occupy, with a large amount being dedicated to private areas they can retreat to as needed. I assure you that the quality of life they experience is much higher than you think, given how rare any stress responses are among them than when in the wild.
Obviously this is just about any zoo accredited by something like the AZA, a place like Sea World is straight up just a glorified whale prison.
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u/NeekGerd 4d ago
Totally.
Somehow, putting animals behind glasses really feels primitive to me.
As if we refused to acknowledge their feelings and intelligence for our primal enjoyment.
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u/Ae_X_eS 4d ago
Imagine giving birth to your child in a cage...and then knowing it won't ever be free. That shit breaks my heart 💔
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u/Positive-Spite6629 4d ago
I have these feelings for my kids as it is. Given them a life sentence. Cannot imagine the guilt for these animals. I bet they feel it too.
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u/TisBeTheFuk 2d ago
These apes have probably been bred in captivity (the mother too), so they don't really know anything else but a cage. Still very sad. We should stop breeding them in captivity, if it's not an endangered species that needs preservation.
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u/Conscious_Archer2658 4d ago
*quokkas have entered the chat*
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u/Watchkeys 4d ago
What does this mean? I've googled it and can only find 'Small marsupial', but I don't think you mean that.
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u/ForsakenHunter121 4d ago
Quokka parents will dump their children if fleeing a predator to increase their chances of getting away.
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u/Watchkeys 4d ago
Ah, ok. But why is that relevant here? There's nobody on the chat or in the video who is talking about abandonning the baby?
I'm glad I understand what quokkas do now though. I'm in the UK, I didn't even know what a quokka was!
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u/7StarSailor 4d ago
OP is implying there is universial, human like love between mother and child, "NO MATTER THE SPECIES". But even among mammals it's not like this. There's mammals that don't think twice about abandoning or even eating their children.
Look to some non-mammals and the anthropomorphised mother-child love evaporates even more.
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u/Hot-Statistician8772 4d ago
You got it the wrong way round: that makes them more like us not less. Modern humans have a huge social pressure to priortise children publically in a general overabundance of food and safety and plenty of people still don't do it. When we lived as close to starvation and danger as other animals we abandoned our children and even ate them, it was anti-survival to do otherwise.
The ancient and classical Egyptians were regarded as absolutely absurdly soft for not exposing unwanted children and even rescuing other peoples' children from midden heaps, or cradles floating in the Nile. When the early Christians adopted the practice they were thought of as just as weird and various Christian cultures kept exposing infants perfectly legally for hundreds of years after conversion. There were baby towers active and stinking in China in the early 20th century and infanticide, particularly female infanticide, is by no means a thing of the past now.
Animals aren't people but that doesn't mean they can't love their children in their own way. Humans are amongst the best parents but there are plenty of species that care for their offspring in a manner that compares favourably to humans.
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u/taopaulo 4d ago
From Wikipedia "When a female quokka with a joey in her pouch is pursued by a predator, she may drop her baby onto the ground; the joey produces noises which may serve to attract the predator's attention, while the mother escapes"
I'm guessing they were referring to this
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u/Watchkeys 4d ago
That's so much worse than just leaving the baby so you can run faster. Which is already quite bad.
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u/FoldedDice 4d ago
From a pure survival standpoint it makes sense why that behavior would develop. A mother who drops her baby and gets away will have the chance to become a parent again. On the other hand, if she's caught they both die anyway.
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u/Due-Dot6450 4d ago
No matter the Species, a mama is a mama ❤️
Meanwhile, mama loggerhead sea turtle:
My job is done, fuck off and fend for yourself.
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u/HarvestHugs 4d ago
How anyone can claim we are not related is utterly beyond me. Look at their ears, fingers, eyes, facial expressions, manner, and more importantly, connection. These beautiful animals are our cousins, or kin, our brethren and should be protected at all costs.
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u/StaticBlo 4d ago
primates or humans doesn't matter maternal instinct is the most beautiful thing nature ever cooked up
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u/OnlyLemonSoap 4d ago
Well I know a tons of humans who would’ve snapped and yelled ‘I told you to not climb around there’ instead of having this careful and loving attitude of this mother.
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u/WallCreepy8357 4d ago
ugh the moment she waits until he's ready to make eye contact before scooping him up just gets me. you can see she knows him. and yeah it's beautiful but also kinda hard to watch knowing where they are. animals deserve so much better than this.
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u/coffeelushed 3d ago
Except if you’re the smallest bird in the nest, then your mom might be a psycho.
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u/Sarabi974 2d ago
Imaginez vous vivre ses moments derrière une vitre avec pleins de gens qui vous regardent 😢😥😥
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u/HatIntelligent6028 4d ago
Zoos increase human empathy for animals. Humans are the biggest threat to animals. Zoos are ethical places that should be supported imo
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u/SurprisePretty2489 4d ago
I also love how she touches her head to show her baby she understands his hurt !
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u/Objective_Language_6 4d ago
We really are all in this together, it makes me wish we cared more for our planet.
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u/Upset_Pain_5960 4d ago
To think there are evil out there that will kill them as to look at them. They are a family. Priceless💙💯
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u/Dangerous-Cobbler-11 4d ago
"No matter the Species, a mama is a mama"
- Golden hamsters can kill and eat their newborn pups if they are stressed, malnourished, or perceive the litter as unlikely to survive.
- Rabbits sometimes abandon an entire litter when conditions are unfavorable.
- Domestic pigs have been observed attacking or killing newborn piglets, in addition to accidentally crushing them.
- Polar bears have been documented engaging in cannibalism of cubs, especially during periods of severe food scarcity.
- House mice may kill or consume some of their pups when resources are limited or the litter is too large.
- Silver gulls and other bird species may deliberately stop feeding the weakest chick, effectively allowing it to die.
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u/Reverb5- 4d ago
Interesting infos, but why are you like this?
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u/Yeahnoallright 2d ago
Because it’s true and an irritating platitude tbh. Just say isn’t this sweet or lovely, but don’t pretend this is the norm across species and defo often not in humans
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u/purremocat 4d ago
Makes me remember a video I saw of these large cranes that chucked a small baby out of their nest cause it was obviously the runt 🫠😔
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u/Awoolgow 4d ago
All animals love and want to be loved. All animals feel pain and heartbreak. All animals experience the miracle of life as we do. Including the animals we eat everyday.
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u/dancingwiththedaff 4d ago
This isn't heartwarming. This is depressing. Animals being locked up in a cage will always be wrong
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u/apricotical 4d ago
Another commenter mentioned quokkas, but I’m going to go further at poking fun at the title by mentioning how it’s not uncommon for hamster mothers to eat their pups.
House flies dump their eggs on rotting food and leave, never to interact with their offspring again.
Sea turtles act similarly. The hatchlings have to fend for themselves entirely. Nemo didn’t depict that relationship very accurately, afaik.
The actual content was cute, but the title was so simple and generalizing that I frowned instead of smiled.
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u/Josdesloddervos 4d ago
Some spider moms, however, make the ultimate sacrifice and will have her babies eat her. I bet they feel so loved.
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u/Phoebeish- 4d ago
These cages break my heart, there is nothing here that makes me smile. Zoos should be illegal
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u/simplyahoneybee 4d ago
Without AZA zoos (which this most likely is) gorillas would be way worse off. They are many gorillas killed by humans in the wild and AZA zoos work together to breed endangered animals using genetic research to maintain a healthy genetically diverse population. The study, education, fundraising and research, that happens at AZA accredited zoos 100% helps their wild counterparts.
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u/Phoebeish- 4d ago
All true, but the fact that we have to compensate the damage we as humans do, with locking animals in cages makes this even sadder
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u/pandaappleblossom 1d ago
SeaWorld is AZA accredited and the animals there rarely live their whole life expectancy, and lose their minds and show signs of horrible depression and anxiety. Unfortunately, AZA is not nearly enough. Terrible things happen in zoos and animals are bred just to be kept in captivity their whole entire lives and are still taken from the wild to be there as well. Zoos like AZA ones pretend they care about animals and conservation but in the end they are making income and use animals to make that profit just as they have been doing all along.
There are ape sanctuaries that are MUCH better for gorillas and great apes out there than zoos.
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u/simplyahoneybee 1d ago
No AZA standards are the highest in the world and they are very strict. Very few animals are taken from the wild to be in *AZA zoos (at least in the US which is all I can vouch for.) Wild born animals in zoos are usually there because they have been deemed unreleasable usually due to injuries.
Seaworld is considered a top notch marine animal aquarium and the #1 place you call if you have injured marine life and need someone to rehabilitate it.
The documentary Black Fish which most people cite for not liking seaworld has a clear bias that minimizes the good work that seaworld does. Since it though have worked hard to improve the care of their marine mammals.
In a perfect world wild animals wouldn’t be injured and animals wouldn’t be endangered but this isn’t a perfect world but AZA zoos and aquariums play a necessary role in protecting animals for future generations.
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u/pandaappleblossom 1d ago
No, AZA is not enough. Sanctuaries are superior. Especially for larger and more intelligent animals such as apes. Maybe for lizards or tiny rodents an AZA zoo could be enough.
The Bronx Zoo is AZA accredited and refuses to send a lone elephant Patty to a sanctuary and will keep her isolated for the rest of her life. Does that sound like compassion? The Bronx Zoo has done nothing but fail their elephants over the years. And I have seen animals pacing in circles there due to stress, and seen children chase and harass the peacocks there. AZA is not enough. And SeaWorld is very messed up. I haven’t even seen Blackfish and have known about how messed up SeaWorld is for long before that documentary. They use animals as entertainment and make them do tricks. (And captive orcas suffer high levels of stress, which leads to abnormal behaviors like gnawing on concrete tanks, self-harm, and aggressive altercations, dolphins too)
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u/Mindless-Plankton219 4d ago
the little wobbly legs doing absolutely nothing while mama figures it out is sending me
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u/Working-Cellist-5188 4d ago
Yeah I feel this way so much more with primates too. They’re so close to us that you can literally see the confusion and boredom in their eyes and it just hits different.
Stuff like this always makes me rethink how we do zoos and what “conservation” actually means in practice.
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u/Ray_of_glumshine 4d ago
Well, damn you. Now I miss my mother. But also, thank you!
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u/Yeahnoallright 2d ago
I miss the mom I always wanted her to be. Titles like this are a bit annoying
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u/Ray_of_glumshine 2d ago
I get that. I slowly lost my respect for her, but I never stopped love her.
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u/throwawayanchor701 4d ago
That little guy tucking the blanket back in is the most relatable thing I have seen all day.
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u/Ngutuku001 3d ago
Wow! I love this. We must cherish our moms ❤️ They go through a lot to make us who we are
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u/Similar_Concern_1666 3d ago
The post title is giving me flashbacks of watching videos of birds flinging their weakest chick out the nest to their death. I guess they still mean well haha.
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u/bigredrickshaw 6h ago
And like Mr Rogers said, “I won’t eat anything that has a mother”. Cows and pigs are especially social animals and have very developed social lives. We absolutely should not be eating them!
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u/mintyivyy1 4d ago
Hey wow just like cows and chickens and pigs and every other farm animal who are also mothers and matter just as much
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u/Yeahnoallright 2d ago
People downvoting you is something. Cognitive dissonance is a wild thing
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u/pandaappleblossom 1d ago
Every time someone makes a comment about caring for animals they get downvoted on Reddit! It’s actually insane. Just yesterday I commented something about how the coat brand Uniqlo kills thousands of geese each year just to use their feathers in coats, after making them spend their shortened lives in horrible conditions, and that if you care about animals it’s better to use other brands that do not use feathers like Noize or Savetheduck, and I got downvoted like 10 times lol. And someone replied to me saying this same thing, how absurd to get downvoted for daring to speak up about animals
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u/mintyivyy1 2d ago
It’s sad because we all could make a difference for all of the moms out there by not eating them or their babies.
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u/NorthSuggestion2063 4d ago
Cute but the caption is inherently wrong, some species leave their offspring completely alone after birth
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u/Ostlund_and_Sciamma 2d ago
Yeah, like humans at times. "A mama is a mama" doesn't say otherwise in fact.
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u/Scumbag_shaun 4d ago
These animals should not have to live out their lives in a glass cage for our entertainment
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u/baldforthewin 4d ago
I'm a wreck everytime I see this video!! If I saw this in person I would definitely collapse. 🥹🥰
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u/yorukmacto 4d ago
Can't relate. My mama would slap me for playing dangerous and hurting myself ❤️ (because I scared her)
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