Warthog attacks newborn gazelle fawn
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2018
- A large male warthog killing and eating a newborn Thomson's gazelle. This behavior had never been reported before when I first observed it in 2012. I suspect the behavior is fairly rare because the warthog is not very good at subduing prey and therefore seems to only be able to kill fawns within the first hour or two of birth. I have seen a handful of instances of warthogs attacking older fawns, and even fawns that are only several hours old are much better at recovering from the warthog's head butts and running away to safety.
The mother's behavior in response to the warthog also suggests that this is a pretty rare behavior. Female gazelle respond to fawn predators with high levels of vigilance and, for smaller predators that don't pose a threat to the mother, aggressive attack. This female does not behave as if she regards the warthog as a threat at all.
I suspect that I was able to observe multiple instances of this predatory behavior because I was actively searching for female gazelles giving birth and because the density of warthogs was very high at my field site while I was conducting this study.
Learn more about this unusual predatory interaction and Thomson's gazelle birth behavior here: www.blaircostelloe.com/researc...
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When you are so low in the food chain that even other prey animals eat you
LOL
Damn
Pigs once had a higher on the food chain existence. At least one species did before it went extinct. Search up the Hell Pig.
Sheesh
bruh, i tougth warthogs are fully herbivourous, as they eat grass
Now I don't feel so bad about the times mr warthog meets a predator.
Maybe the warthog is angry because a lion ate his own children, we don't know what's really going on.
@@sabretoothedkitten1368 hahaha maybe
Sabretoothed Kitten wtf do u mean warthogs are solitary animals they feel threatened if u r too close and attack anything that’s too close
At all, those hyenas too..
Yes...You got it right...!!!
No emotions and No concerns.
Let it be in it's own way.
Gazelles really just walk around being food for every other damn animal
Impalas and Gazelles are at the bottom of the African food chain. They both get eaten by everything in Africa.
I honestly feel like all wild animals hate each other and humans for existing.
What you think humans are without no weapons?
Take the toughest human no GUNS throw em in the wild no movie script game over 🤣
Facts!!
Warthog: so this is what it feels like to be a lion
Brilliant comment!
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I LOVE THIS COMMENT SO MUCH
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This is the side of Pumba Disney doesn't want you to see.
We saw a small part of it when that nigga was like "THEY CALL ME..MR PIG! and ran at them Hyena's
LOL
Well considering that Pumba ate bugs this wouldn’t be surprising.
You goddamn right😏
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Don’t feel too bad when this mofo gets eaten alive by a lion.
72defender I prefer wild dogs 😆
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@Dislike? You mean Dis I Like not necessarily true all the time. There have been times lions eat the animal alive if it is really hungry
I wish all of you to be eaten alive too. Like you eat other animals. fucking bitches. don't think that you are good and this animal is bad
Damn.
Gazelles really can't do a damn thing to protect themselves or their children against damn near anything.
They literally just seem like meat for everything else.
You didn't see the mother move her tail around to let the warthog know she was kind of upset?
I don't know who has it worse. Gazelles or Impalas.
@@ghosthound17 It's exciting to watch nature but I feel so bad for both.
Prey animals
All they can do is run away
The mum just casually walk away while her newborn is being eaten..
Best mum i seen so far
🤐😏"Me or the kid?" Hmmm?
Not that she could do much
@@Trajan2401 I kinda felt like there was something wrong with the baby ? And the mom just gave up because of that maybe .
Umm..pretty average for American "mothers" as well. Just stating the obvious but of course the exceptions do apply to those who are actually parents these days, few..far..and between.
@@michaelmarquez6133 nope. The mother rarely sees a warthog as a threat. It is in the description. Warthogs bumps are nothing to baby gazelles after a couple hours of birth. This fawn got very unlucky.
next video i'm gonna watch: "lion eats warthog
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Then Crocodile eats Lion, then Hippo eats Crocodile, then Elephant eats Hippo then man shoots Elephant for its tusks. The End.
@@amitahlawat8609 🤣🤣🤣 Savage lol
I use to feel sorry for them when the lions attacked the Hogs but not any more....
th sy plot twist: the warthog eats the lion
Gazelles are at the bottom of the food chain in Africa, being born a gazelle is like a death sentence lol.
No shit. 😫
Zebras too. Their rumps are ripe for the picking.
no, there are so many gazelles, very little will be killed
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Those fast high jumpers are not that easy to catch. But even the big ones are very easy to kill if you get ahold of them.
I love those screams when a wart hog makes while getting eaten by a lion.
Dito.😄
😂😂😂😂😂
I do too and after viewing this, I'm gonna enjoy it even more every time one digs up one of these squealing, ugly as hell ham hocks!
Hell yeah or when a huge croc clamps on a leg
Yup, but this is nice too.
Thank you for not adding music. No really. THANK YOU. For once we can hear the sounds of the wild unlike 99% of other vids that overlay "music".
Agreed. I hate when they put music in nature videos, it ruins everything
Agreed as well. Those ones with the music and a billion different camera cuts (often not even of the same footage) are awful!
@@Vereid So true, thats a huge annoyance!
@@DonVito703 the worst is when the footage shows wild animals doing funny things and the music is that clown-type comedy music with "boing" sounds and clown-horn sounds. This apparently makes things hilarious 😒
100%
I like how mom runs off, watches the warthog devour her kid, then calmly walks away when she gets bored.
ignorant comment there. she is pragmatic n knows she can zero.
First, it looks like the mother Gazelle would stand, and it seems like the warthog going to go away, but right away it seems like the mother decide to abandon her kid.
Yep, tic toc generation for ya...
Yes, and she keeps waving her tail like ig she’s happy that it’s not happening to her. Coward creatures that deserve to be the preys of anything.
@@dou-lheumanacara4310 when a herbivore wags it's tail, it's a sign of fear and aggression, not happiness.
now people will type "hyenas eating a warthrog" and after that "lions attacking hyenas"
cine mejillas then after that- men shooting lions - man killing man - woman killing man
@@creamcheese7845 hahah and then an asteroid hit the earth and kill them all
Yep! Lol
Cycle of nature
lol
The beginning of the scene has so much suspense without a word being spoken. The mother trying to get the baby to stay down. Then she sees a predator and gets spooked, tries to keep her cool but ends up running away. The warthog either somehow misses or just ignores the little baby in the grass…until the baby decides to stand up and draw attention. Then the warthog just turns around and stares at it….can they coexist? Can they be friends?…….nope!
Excellent camera work, no unnecessary talking, great quality, this is what a video should be
That tail wagging back and forth means one happy and contented warthog!
The gazelle like “I’ll go make another one he can have it”
What a mother....lol
@@asepnurhasan195 I mean the gazelle can't do anything really, she doesn't have a pack to support her and the size comparison is huge between her and the warthog. Also just take a look of those horns and teeth, she can't fight it at all lol.
@@SilverSoulxd True, but she didn't even brother to at least bluff an attack, to see the determination of the warthog.
That's the exact same thing Jaycee Lee Dugard's parents said.
The gazelle could have run past it in order to distract the hog so it may give chance leaving the baby alone BUT animals are dumb as hell so she would never think of this tactic in any parallel universe
He did a little more than attack it.
Time to search for "wild dogs eat warthog alive"
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@@deanivan3951 🤣🤣🤣
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This warthog is actually much bigger than most warthogs I have seen.
See that big warthog being eaten alive by pack of wild dogs.
Tommies are just small.
@@kimfaustino7919 actually wild dogs struggle when hunting warthogs, these pigs are intelligent, when encountering these wolfs, warthogs stand in there place and make sure there is no pack member trying to surround it, i've seen hundreds of videos of wild dogs struggle to take down a warthog
The Mother is just there like "Better him than me."
Statistics and stuff. Smart choice
😂😂😂 that mother is a bitch
Nature needs to give gazelle way better horns and very aggressive nature.
@@tonydelaroca5131 No she isn’t
I mean what could it have done
At 4:00 WAS the defining moment...the warthog was about to turn the other way.
But the mother freaked out.
You are spot on....
You are right
pretty good point. what a bitch mamma
The mother was trying to divert the warthogs attack towards itself
The turning point was 4:29. When the fawn approached and got too close to the hog.
Gazelle: *Exists*
Life: *you know you done f’ed up right?*
The lions will get him soon nice and fat like he screams when caught now I dont feel pity!
I knew warthogs were scavengers, never knew they attacked live prey like this? Amazing
Scavengers are Opportunistic!
I wish the gazelle stabbed its eyes out
Scavengers is a weird term
Even a vulture would kill a mouse if it's in plain sight and eat it
They are opportunists they don't wait until you die
The layer of afterbirth all over the fawn directly triggered this action
It was like. Oh, hello world. Good-bye world.
Just passing by!
From the baby's perspective, the last thing it sees is the ugly mug of the Warthog breathing down on it with it's bad breath while ripping it to shreds!
baby gazelle: momma i'm hungry
warthog: SMACK!!
warthog: come here!! *punch* *punch* *choke* *bite* *rip apart*
the lord has a plan for us all
Warthogs are powerful animals. Just look at the muscle in his hind legs. Don't ever underestimate them
I noticed that as well. I guess that is where most of the faun ended up!
yep people wanna say pigs are fat. no they are all muscle
They scream like a little girl when the wild dogs eat their guts out though
@@Pango5697 and the dogs chirp like crickets, the hyenas howl like a kid etc
This is the real pumba
pigs will eat anything
including human flesh? Yeah....bet
@@donnysath9084
As human species
so pigs are like humans, kinda
Zaman Yolcusu anmals also cant tolerate anything and also get diseases, especialy cats are sensitive
Pigs eat just about everything
And pretty much every carnivore has no problems eating them
Ironic isn't it
Pumba wtf are you doing ??
Leng Lang lmao
Kills Bambi
Life is tough out here
Bugs are just snacks
😂😂😂😂
Pumba Said he's sick of eating bugs 😂
To think, the mother will never get see the fawn grow up, go to college, get married, buy a house, get a mortgage, have children.....
You're right it's better this way
I don't know if I'll even achieve TWO of those things before I die.
@@sovereign3351 I was gonna say. That warthog spared the fawn of a life of misery
Warthogs are omnivores , so whenever the meat requirement arises they hunt the sick and weak. They even charge at single baboon in groups and runway incase the baboon is injured they patiently wait and destroy to eat it off.
The warthog appears at 3:49
thx
Thanks
I’m able to fast forward dickweed👎🏾
Wow..I used to feel bad for warthogs cuz l thought they were always being attacted and l never saw them bother other animals. Welp, now their screams will forever fall on deaf ears 😨
@Denia wiseone, fair enough. But you could say the same about any wild animal. Most of them kill to live. They don't have a guilty conscience about eating a baby - it's just a meal for them.
Kind of puts a whole different light on hakuna matata, huh?😂
@Lakesha Goodwin how idiotic of you. Disney movies aren't a good representation of how wildlife act.
@Kiss my axe are you dumb? Deers aren't omnivores lmao
@Kiss my axe did YOU know that monarch butterflies feast on carcasses?
5:55 momma gazelle time to go party again forget responsibilities
Yo pensé lo mismo pero me dijeron que la madre lo que busca,yéndose ,es que el jabalí la persiga y deje al bebe gacela.
Responsibilities
It is not his mother's responsibility because he is an animal. It was the responsibility of the video maker to save his child.
@@umarshahab9200 it's nature dumbass
@@umarshahab9200 No it wasn’t
When people say “Life is a gift” send them this video.
I'll never feel bad for a Warthog again when Lions and Leopards are chewing on them.
Try thinking like an animal.
Ohhhhh the circle of life is soooo baaaaad
Waaaaaaaaaa
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Mom was like "Aight I'ma head out."
Yeah..that mom...what a heartless bitch...😠😠
she tried to lead it away
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@@themadafaka6839 There's no feelings involved. The propagation of the genes is the prime directive, she can always make another baby. Her genes die with her.
@@kean10c ahh...imagine for human momma to have that kinda "I can always make another baby" confidence.... 😂😂
NO REMORSE- Chewing with his mouth open and everything 😂
The mother was more worried about finding a new mate than trying stop the pig from leaving her with nothing to bury of her newborn. ☹️
The mom was like “Ight imma head out....”
Warthog seems to be getting a lot of hate in the comments. Really this is just a bad match up against a new player and a veteran player. Imo the warthog just saw free exp. and took full advantage. Kudos to the warthog for not abiding to the savanna tier list.
Zack P don’t know why people are getting all emotional and worked up. This is the law of nature. This is the balance that keeps functioning.
Yeah exactly, I’d bet a big starving antelope would have done the same
Dude, you don't spawn camp the starting area.
I hate twinking.
@@shae2330 Don't hate the player hate the game.
5:59 Gazelle : Ok cool, I'll just make another one.
I'll just put on the kettle while you wait
Baby gazelle : heh mom, is that daddy.. Hey daddy (running to warthog)
When Timon and Simba's not around, and you're tired of eating the same ol "grub".
Hard life. U have like 3 minutes tops to learn to fly or it's curtains.
Mother was "sure you can eat my baby gazelle".
she went off to find another baby daddy
I know seemed like she didn't care
Super factz she was like bye!!
On god lol even watched for a bit. “It’s better then wild dogs baby”
Late term abortion...veerrrry late
Mom: “I don’t know em that well anyway, I just met em.”
Imagine just being born to be immediately eaten
As an animal, it isn't bad because they've to suffer the least in their life.
Time to go watch hogs get shot from helicopters
Juke 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂YES!!!
Type in hogs v tannerite 🙄💣
I wish all of you to be eaten too (alive or being killed before. but not after your own death). Like you eat other animals. fucking bitch. don't think that you are good and this animal is bad
@@ssdsxfs5490 Indeed the hypocrisy these cunts posess tends to be astounding
Pumba: Sorry gazelle, there was some bugs on this baby, he is now free of bugs :)
Gazelle: ok, I’ll just watch and wander off
Imagine being so happy with your momma and she just leaves you to save herself...
It’s hard to be a cameraman I would’ve shot the damn pig
Papa took off first!
I think she was trying to draw the Warthog away, also keep in mind warthogs are not natural predators so her instincts didn’t kick in
This newborn was so quick from its mom's belly to warthog's belly and just lived in this world less than 5 minutes.
Poor fawn. It was so innocent that it actually thought the warthog is its mother. It casually walked up to it and tried to cuddle.
In many species of hoofed animals (ungulates) the babies have a very strong instinct to move toward large things that are near them, and follow large things that are moving away from them. Usually this is adaptive, because the closest large thing is mom. But when mom gets separated from the baby, the baby can end up following other things - unrelated adults, tourist cars, or even predators.
@@BlairCostelloe Why does the mother run away from its baby?
@@sterlingyapsoonaik7097 In this video, the mom leaves the baby because she is scared by the warthog. The warthog is much stronger than her and could easily hurt her. It's unusual I think for a warthog to approach a gazelle so directly - very likely she found this threatening and moved out of the way in case the warthog wanted to hurt her. If the baby were a little bit older and stronger, it would have followed her away and would also have been safe from the warthog.
Maybe not. It just didn't know it was a predator.
That was really sad. Just born - and this is it's fate. Pathetic.
"Oh well...better my kid than me."
That baby really had a short life. Leopards obviously know how to treat warthogs.
Welp, you are here and the algorithm will never let you forget it.
HOGS EAT EVERYTHING, I'M NOT SUPRISED.
This Lion King remake is getting outta hand!
Hakuna Matata
Huge Hog
@K K I said this from the start: Tarantino is a terrible choice.
Watching this warthog's predatory side, it's like watching the ancient Entelodont. Just imagine much bigger and with giant fangs instead of tusks.
Mom was like: “meeen, we just met”
It would’ve been ironic if a lion showed up to eat the warthog.
Its nothing ironic about that , it's the way it works in nature . Learn how to use the word ironic please
@@opicasunka2033 infact it would be more ironic if a pack of hyenas came to eat the lion after it ate the warthog after it at the baby. I R O N I C
this probably happened at some point. Warthogs are among the animals that don't die of age in the savannas lol
Joshy Presley but he’s right tho..
@Joshy Presley lmao opica sunka
Bambi: givin birth
Pumba: oh dinners rdy
Pumba:taking a nap in a hole
Lions: Oh look, nice pulled pork sandwich for lunch
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@@felixash9716 wasn’t Bambi male?
Impala/Gazelle are even below nuts and berrys in the food chain !
😂😂😂
Every time an impala is born:
Mom: “yo, hurry tf up…we don’t have much time before we become prey”
Mother gazalle: awriyt.....time to have mate again...
Cuz we all know, mating is the best part !!!
naw time to get on birth controll
Mating IS the best part
3:50 is when the warthog first arrive
You a real one
4:20 Geez. The entire time I was thinking: "move around the warhog! Not directly towards it!"
Gazelle be like: “all that work fir nothing. Thanks a lot asshole”
There seems to be a lot of desire for revenge or karmic justice against warthogs in the comments here. Keep in mind the warthog isn't being malevolent nor does it see this as a cute baby, all it's doing is taking advantage of winning the lotto in terms of nutrition. Any lion, cheetah, hippo or any scavenger or omnivore large enough would have done the same thing.
That's right. But let's be honest. They give a shit about it
I woulda killed the hog because it's my nature to eat pork. Have a nice day!
Gian Torres well we are animals too, so yeah we need to eat lol, but you can’t intervene on the safari.
PaperDragon I completely agree, people need to stop turning animals into demons with malicious intent, their just trying to survive like we do everyday.
There is no right and wrong in nature..That's a human emotion.. Nature does what is necessary
Warthog became strong over little fawn .where is your brave over the wild dogs or the lions?
@earaza no he just saying suffer when 3 male lions pin you down and peel you alive hogs are pests
A Bh He answer yo yet?
@@darrenjones886 no they arent pest you fucking imbecile
Haaaaaa where is your brave....good one....lol!!
Plenty of clips of warthogs facing off and winning over a pack of wild dogs.
How did she get from being so happy and proud and loving of her child to not caring less as a huge monster viciously skinned and tore it apart?!
gazelles are one of the weakest prey animals, that mother couldn't do anything
Amazing how much sheer disregard for life there is in nature.
I wouldn't say that because animals only kill to eat, whereas humans are 100% worse killers and kills for stupid or futile reasons.
I mean, if I'm starving and there's a dumb walking meat sack in front of me, I would eat it with no mercy too.
That must be the most idiotic comment I’ve ever seen on CZcams and that’s saying a lot . . .
It’s not a disregard for life. It’s survival. You either eat, or you die. It’s kill or be killed.
It’s not evil, it’s cycle of life. Even for humans, this is how it was for thousands of years
@@troyb4533 Agree 100%, this was exactly my point! Animals don't view prey as life, they view prey as food and nothing else. It's us humans who tend to humanize animal suffering: in the animal kingdom, it's sustinence and critical calories.
Spawn killed.
I dont want even laugh man 🤣
Lmao comment was on point
Why has this not had more likes lmao? Brilliant comment!
You mean fawn killed? I try.
Don’t worry the warthog will get some water . Then the crocodile will be waiting for some fresh meat
And he will survive
@Think Is Awesome ... yes
Well... that was surprising...
Also, momma just casually walks away like oh well...
Gazelle Lawyer: Mother made a 5 sec stand against the warthog before stteping away, that should count for something.
Jus watched a leopard pinned down a warthog and that mf screamed to the top of his lungs 😂😂😂
Daron Townsend 😂😂😂 @ mf screamed to the top of his lungs
Like we are all waiting to hear of the
NEXT animal you see die an excruciating death, you buzzard- brained ghoul loser!
I bet it was screaming, "it wasn't meee!"
@@winterheartz012 lmao
@@miltonmoore5294 why are you crying tho??
*Warthog decided being vegetarian is enough, let's try meat.*
He was vegan maybe that could not resist the meat temptation ...
Anvar Anvatrix hogs eat worms and insects definitely not vegan
@@watermelongames3194 thank you, I know. It was just a joke :)
Fun fact pigs are all omnivores all along.
The mom is walking away like "damn another one..." .
5:55 “Mother casually walking away” Sorry son, didn’t get to know ya. Didn’t even get to give you a name.
That was cold to watch. Mother gazelle has some real strong motherly instincts, doesn't she?
RIP gazelle
11:05am - 11:15am
(Dreams about eating the warthog 😋 🤤)
Jajajajajaha 😂
4:34 time is awesome! And the "MOTHER OF THE YEAR" award goes to that gazelle!!
At least Gazelles don't hack the baby up in the womb like 'Humans' do.
This, this one video, is what took away sympathy for warthogs and resulted in people searching for "warthogs screaming " on CZcams
Pigs and hogs are not only herbivores they are omnivores.
yeah but they usually eat dead animals they not built to kill
this one clearly took advantage of the situation. I just kept hope a leopard, lion, hyena or something come eat him
They eat their own feces too.
💩
Warthog starts eating baby gazelle!
Mom gazelle: Whatever!
Narrator: The bond between the mother and the baby fawn is strong
Warthog: enters
Mother: K,bye
Parent Gazelle be like “hey Mr Warthog, look at my newborn, it’s a cutie eh?
Mr Warthog?
Ok that’s sweet
Ok that’s a little rough now
Go.....go easy mr....mr warth......og?
Errrr
Ok carry on
Probably not its first fawn. Note how it knows to step on the body to hold it down while it pulls up to get a small enough chunk to chew up.
Best feature of the video is the silence on the part of the observers. So often the people near the camera have to ooh, ahh, and ohh.
It’s a giant warthog too, the muscle on that thing. It really only needs to fear lions.
@@fellipedasilva99And hyenas, and leopards and painted dogs.
Or it's just smart like that.
Silence of the observers???!!! Did you see the way the giant warthog looked directly into the camera. It was contemplating running over to spear, gore, and eat on the stomachs of the humans he impaled. LOL.
Adorable, brave & mighty hog.. He Wasted nothing..
He gave the poor baby gazzelle an opportunity to live through him...
Marvelous godly creature.. Honourable Hogg..
😂
Mother Gazelle: "geez that suckers big, I'm getting out of here. Sorry junior you're on your own"
Gazelles: exist
Everything else: and I took that personally.
Thanks for sharing this video, along with your extensive knowledge, and respectful responses to questions. CZcams can always do with more authors like yourself! You may find that warthogs bear some traits to the so called'pig from hell' that lived some millions of years ago. Whilst that was a predator, and warthogs, I assume generally eat vegetation, you may find that very rarely, for some reason(s), will temporarily adapt the prehistoric traits. Not sure, just an idea. Would be interested to hear your thoughts there mate! Thanks again, best wishes for the future!
MessyJC I will have to look up the “pig from hell”, but I will say that many other extant species of suids are known to consume meat as scavengers or even predators (wild boar for example). Pigs seem to be very opportunistic, and unwilling to pass up an easy protein-rich meal. In fact after observing this behavior I wasn’t as surprised to know that it happens as I was to find that it hadn’t been reported before. Since wild boars are so well known as predators
of ungulate fawns I was surprised that warthogs didn’t have a similar record. But they don’t, and as far as i know my papers are the only records of warthogs attacking live ungulate young.
But yeah, as jarring as it was to see I fully expected to find previous records of it, given similar behavior of other suid species. But apparently it is rarer in warthogs.
And thank you for watching and for your engaging comments :)
*My suggestion is that it thinks its dead and is trying to get a few scraps from it.*
2:18 cool to see the elephants walking in the background
looks like Zebras, Elephants don't walk that fast
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Pumbaa, not to the kid!
Guess Timon was a huge hypocrite for constantly getting on Simba's case for being a carnivore.
Gazelle was like you really gonna eat my new born in front of me?...savage.
Watching all of these animal predation videos: I'm glad I wasn't born a gazelle in Africa.
That doe has some lousy maternal instincts. Never did it attempt to defend or even feign an attack to the warthog. Definitely strange. In numerous videos I’ve seen there would at least be an attempt to protect even if the baby is weak or with a deformity. With this doe-nada.
Hi Christopher, thanks for your comment. I was also surprised at first but have since found it to be normal for mother Thomson's gazelles to not defend newborn fawns against predators (but only if the fawn is very very young, like less than an hour or two old). I'm pasting my response to a previous commenter here, who made a similar comment:
"I found that this lack of defense to be typical for mothers just after birth. I noticed the same thing when jackals attacked newborn fawns less than an hour old (see this video: czcams.com/video/wBPN0Q5lDs8/video.html).
Normally mothers will very aggressively defend their fawns against jackals, but when the fawn is this young they don't really defend at all. I think it's because the fawn is so helpless at this point that the mother's defense won't do any good. For defense to be effective, the mother has to chase the predator away or distract it, during which time the fawn runs off and hides in the grass. If the fawn can't run and hide, the predator will just come back to it again and again and the fawn will inevitably be killed. It seems that with very young fawns, the probability of successful defense is so vanishingly small that it's not worth the energy and risk of injury to even try."
@@BlairCostelloe this is the most probable reason. Besides this another reason can also be the condition of mother just after delivering a baby. Maybe she is more comfortable to chase after 3-4 hrs...
How is it strange when the mother has no weaponry? Think about your question. And that's a male warthog full of testosterone
Tertius Durham not all female mammals need horns or sharp teeth to protect their offspring from predators.
@@Bulbagaba992 indeed but against a warthog and after giving birth u really think she was gonna fight?
“Are you my mommy” as it runs towards warthog.
Warthog: This grass sucks, ah, there is a nice and juicy little morsel over there, okay kid, get ready to go down the hatch!