Lioness spares wildebeest calf, leads it back to its herd

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10394949/Astonishing-moment-lioness-shows-love-wildebeest-calf-leads-herd.html

When a mother's love is stronger than predatory instincts: Astonishing moment lioness 'shows love' for wildebeest calf and leads it back to its herd

.... The Tanzania National Parks official Twitter account posted the video Monday in which a lioness is seen walking side by side with a plucky wildebeest calf half her size as she escorted the baby animal back to safety in the Serengeti National Park.

Such behaviour is highly unusual and has led Pascal Shelutete, the spokesman for the Tanzania National Parks Authority, to tell the BBC the lioness' maternal instincts must have overcome her natural predatory instincts. ....

Footage published by the Smithsonian Channel as part of the 2015 documentary 'Surviving the Serengeti' showed a baby wildebeest, who had been born minutes earlier but had become separated from its mother, come face to face with an adult lioness on the prowl. ....

Moments later, the lioness is pictured rolling around with the wildebeest, allowing the calf to snuggle next to her warm body as though it were her own offspring, before releasing the newborn animal and allowing it to gallop off to meet its mother. ....

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