Leopard Nurtures Baby Baboon After Killing It's Mother

[IvO09]

the leopard is simply nurting the baboon to eat it later on when it is hungry >:)

[hellraiser5671]

If humans didn't have weapons big cats would be at the top of the food chain.

[ninjaskillzmario]

that was beautiful :')

[Amboselli]

Is the baby going to end up eating his own mom for supper? that's what i want to know.  or don't want to know!

[mikegloady]

It's not mercy - it's preserving the food supply. This anthropomorphism and ascribing of human emotion and motivation onto animals is idiotic.

[Devildude42]

@mikegloady - so she's going to raise the baboon to eat it? After she didn't bother to eat it's mom? That doesn't even make any sense.

[Jtjdhulk]

She is nurturing it so that when it grows up it can befriend other baboons and bring easy preys to the leopard... Clever investment..

[dynamiccandycanes]

"killing one of nature's most feared hunters" i'm guessing that guy never seen the video of the gazelle attacking the baboon and actaully got her baby back

[mousavsm]

I stand corrected, by the morning, the cub showed little to no signs of life......sucks but the leopard at least showed that it had character. I'm guessing that if the leopard somehow knew the mom had a baby in her sack, the leopard wouldn't have touched the baboon (considering what it did with the baby). Amazing but sad video.

[XArcane]

Damn that's amazing... though the cynic in me says she was probably just saving it for later.

[mousavsm]

@XArcane you make no sense.....if she was saving it for later, then why did she not just eat the mother which was of full size? Don't know if it shows it on this video, but the mother was taken by the hyenas and she could have just taken the mom to higher ground and left the baby. I read somewhere that the kid followed the leopard around for some time after this video was taken....

[angelalma09]

this is so touching...i had tears on my eyes watching it....

[TheDanceofjoy]

i believe in God and i believe in this and most certainly this video was not liked by 9 devils.

[SilentSputnik]

@TheDanceofjoy -.-

[stipplegripple]

wonder what happened to them in the end

[OkUrRight]

@stipplegripple probably died from starvation which is sad. it's not like the leopard could have really taken care of it even though it looks like she wanted to.

[cba2makeaname]

@stipplegripple well she prob cant feed it so it prob died..

[rahmurdaloc]

This can't be real....

[creosotegirl]

An amazing video showing the natural disposition of mothers due to motherly instincts and oxytocin.

[INT3L818]

Pedo

[kansaskickwizard]

what's the baby going to eat now?

[Milky1944]

cool but if that leopard was a male that baby wouldn't survive a minute. Basic maternal instinct all female mammals find anything with the proportions of a baby and they switch to mother mode. Humans get it to its why we find puppies and stuff like that cute

[Ardentzero]

That's going to be an awkward conversation: "Jake you were adopted." "WHAT!?!?!" "I ate your real mom :/" lol

[j4is1m4R]

inb4 baboon grows up and the leopard kills it.

[pinecone816]

I'm gunna eat you in a few years.

[yaanee]

even animals dont touch kids

[MortisCityHC]

@yaanee That's because they don't have any priests.

[yaanee]

@MortisCityHC lool

[TehAznOtaku]

What if she's just fattening up the monkey for slaughter

[smarterhug]

7 people accidentally pressed "dislike" instead of "like"...because there's no way someone could NOT like this video.

[epilepticdwarf]

@smarterhug

Shut the hell up with these fucking boring comments.

[nhcrank]

@epilepticdwarf Yeah, they're pretty tired and uninspiring. Comedic feces.

[PoetryforPeople]

i see this as cat and mouse syndrome. cats like to play with their food. 

[anmllovr1]

ummmm i dont get how u can dislik this video

[bigblackCOOKie]

so the baby baboon died in the end?

[Chileanbaker]

@bigblackCOOKie yes but because it didn't have the warmth it needed

[Hot5hots]

Thumbs down for the religious comment. this is nature, and in nature they dont have religious leanings.

[fudginny17]

if i was that leopard i would totally take in a cute baby like that!!! heck, id teach it how to hunt it's own species! XD

[origamipein18]

One of the cutest moments in history!<333

[coutylaneboy]

i saw the all documentary is call eye of the lepard the dady of this femele lepard was so facken smart he always was robbin the lions prey in their own fckn nowses

[ei8190]

Legadema was on NatGeo Wild - Big Cat Week last night too but different video.

[FreshiesInc]

Wow. Just Wow.

[stellareaktor]

i bet in the end the baboon starved to death,cause the leopard couldnt feed it...

[XavierBoy95]

@stellareaktor the baby died from the cold after the leopard left it for a while to feed on the mother of the baby

[stellareaktor]

@XavierBoy95 hahhaha,when he then returned to the dead baby,i bet he was that confused,he made up his mind to never give a shit again,and ate it too...

[809brenda]

wow amazing

[SSjago]

the leopard doesn't really know what to do with the babboon , she is curious...

but the small baby needs milk and to be raised like a babboon , it needs to eat plants and fruits , not just meat...

[GIRTHEBEST1]

The Baboon will be eaten sooner or later.I know it's sad but....it's animal instinct.

[artemis900]

@GIRTHEBEST1 it didnt eat it...and talking about animal instinct , I think ours is sicker...Leopard dont bomb themselves into baboons territory.

[jednutty]

i believe that this actually means animals also like to make investment, this leopard for example is building her 401k, happy retirement Mrs. leopard, and good luck.

[papersplease]

Leopard to teenage Baboon: "There is something I must tell you".

[92Funny]

that was truly touching

[a8anasios666]

leopards farming baboons :S

[shibyx]

i heard the baboon died

[msnywoman23]

@shibyx

whered did you hear that from. im trying to find out if theres more to this clip i google but so far i just find this little clip. there has to be more.this shit made me cry

[ActOnInstinct]

subhanallah..allah is great!

[kook2222]

I'd have Slit the babys throat with a Knife, in the Nam you cant take POW's.

[ryunaki]

this is much better than any shitty shows/soap operas they got on tv nowadays

[araxrokkxjonas]

Stumble Upon :D

[ShinobiKatana]

that was fucking adorable

[kronikkloud]

that's some jungle book shit right there

[alexscothern]

@kronikkloud

You made me laugh and cry for like 5 minutes. My cheeks hurt really bad.

[Flinty88]

going to nurture it till its big then eat it

[eperpogi28]

it is like dante kills the baby girls mother and raised it to become his wife.

[NarutoKurosaki256]

It's obviously the leopard's maternal instinct. The baby baboon has the scent and energy of an infant and the leopard's maternal instincts are to care for it.

[Haewk]

She left the carcass of the bigger, mother baboon to look after the baby. After seeing that, how can you say that she was just nuturing the baboon to eat it?

[Haewk]

Take a look at her eyes at 1:01. You can see it in her eyes she can feel emotion there.

[markareg]

if u had to kill a man who tried to rob your wife on a desolate highway, would you leave its helpless child to die on the side of the road in the middle amidst a certain doom? Animals usually kill for necessity, not for sport (predatory animals kill for sport occasionally). Just because we kill, doesn't mean we do not cherish life. Any nurturing animal must have this adaptation

[thresher4]

Animals have instict,it's hard wired.She kills a tormenter.Then naturally nutures the baby.

[hazfelix123]

The Baboon Might Think It's a leopard

[ninokunsluver]

i love baby baboons!! they're just so kawaii, ne?? ^^

[cypresspuz]

Sad ending anyway.

[mietinmiksin22]

The commentator is out of touch with the

leopard's emotions: in no moment is she

"torn" between her killing instincts and

motherly feelings, but from the start she

is loving & protecting to the baby.....

[rezalzmz]

Seeing this makes one wonder on our own so-called human progress... abortion, throwing newborns into the bins / flushing them down the toilets, leaving babies on the doorsteps of orpanages / houses of worships... we've come far indeed.

[miniixio]

Alhamdullilah! Thats amazing!

[aussieguy6908]

This so made me cry, so beautiful.

[conveil]

What sins? Killing it's enemy/prey is no different than you getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth...

[drew92gill]

haha right. but what i think k9n4ultra meant was that maybe the leopard went against its morals (or mother nature's morals), not exactly sinning, by killing a mother still raising a young offspring, so the leopard took it upon herself to make sure she made up for it by nurturing the baby. or maybe she thought hey if i make sure this thing grows up i'll have another full meal later in life, or another animal will

[k9n4ultra]

maybe the leopard felt guilty and wants to amend the sins by trearing the baby

[calisaetia]

@k9n4ultra I highly doubt the leopard is religious, therefore how can it sin, idiot.

[MariluLane]

wow, i wish they would have followed this story, it suggests it was only for one night, i really hope the baboon was ok after that...

[batcountryrabid]

I love the added quote from Allah :) that was sweet and this video is SO cute!

[tyijer]

My 16 year old cat understands completely...

[danyalyusuf]

Maybe I am just jaded or I'm more familiar with feline behavior... but this didn't seem overly spectacular to me. Cats often play with creatures they find too small to consume. I didn't see any affection in that leopard's reaction. It was curious, unsure, and playful. I've seen housecats do the same thing with mice and grasshoppers they catch.

[rezalzmz]

@danyalyusuf ...that's coz housecats' stomachs r always full... but alleycats, like all wildcats r always starving. They will eat nearly anything that moves. I have cats as pets and live among many alleycats too =)

[chrisflvs442]

It just wanted the baboon to get bigger so it can eat it later.

[astha77]

Good Deed in Animal Kingdom.....good ex that every soul is capable of mercy and good deeds...It takes a lot of good deeds to become human....Why then revert to animalistic behavior?

[emtrixdk]

did u know humans can actualy reproduce with monkeys,

[Yvesyew]

did you prove it? xD kidding

[Plisken1986]

If this doesn't prove that animals have feelings, then I don't know what does.

That being said, primates and cats have very complex brains, obviously. The fact that they feel emotion isn't to much of a surprise.

[upplsuckimcool16]

Well it could be debated but I think i agree.

You could say the cat was just very curious, But like I said I agree with you. The cat even took thge baby away from the hyeina so there isn't much argument you can say against tyhat being a caring gesture so......

[KawaiiHunters]

@Plisken1986 I saw something similar on TV where a lioness adopts an antelope baby. They were originally doing a story about the mother and her lion cub but the baby died soon after birth and the scientists were saying that her motherly instincts overpowered her hunting instincts when she found the orphaned antelope. Fascinating how strong mothering is in nature that it would defy the very laws placed in nature.

[papersplease]

@Plisken1986 It's not about feelings or emotion, it's about instinct.

[DrVitaminTHC]

@Plisken1986 but do they understand the concept of death? i dont think so

[stinkyshoe]

@DrVitaminTHC

Elephants have a death ritual, the only known species to do so aside from humans, where they gather round the body, scream, and bury them.

Yes, most species do. Also, chimps have been known to acknowledge their dead, but not in a ceremony form.

[DrVitaminTHC]

@stinkyshoe Now I know, but more specifically do they acknowledge that they are going to die at one point, like humans know... the concept of limited time on earth...

[stinkyshoe]

@DrVitaminTHC Hm... I'm not sure. Maybe if they realize one of them has fallen ill, they will supply them with water or food one way or another.

[vipercannonmafia]

@Plisken1986

Nah, the leopard is just being curious. Don't try to compare felines to primates because our mind don't work the same. This is not a Disney cartoon.

[jetdatboy]

did the monkey survive?

[upplsuckimcool16]

Well, no...

It says it right at the end...... "Eventually the cold is what silenced the baby baboon"

[Chotahater]

I don't think so. The last thing he said about the cold finally quieting the baby made it seem like it died from the cold, but then again maybe I'm wrong.

[aaaaaangie]

that was really beautiful.

[Aracind]

Jeremy Irons can narrate all day to me lol

[Buffkitty222]

right. i was about to fall asleep listening to that. i want him to tell me a bed time story

[LaputaLaputa]

Tragically, when morning came, the camera team realised that the tiny baboon was no longer showing signs of life. "We think it was simply too small to survive the night without its natural mother and the sustenance she could provide," says Joubert. "As the sun came up, Legadema realised that the baby had died, and moved on."

[stylin60es]

that was an awesome display of some sort of maternal instinct.

[MaxxDiver]

amazing video .. thank you for posting BUT probably it ate the baby the next day :(

[avnoimportance]

i believe not. it rather died from the lack of milk and food... after all a baby can only eat milk... yet amazing video

[Trahira517]

"Let me tell ya a bedtime story whilst I eat your Mom..."

[mstrlnk7]

"What's for dinner you ask? Well theres a limb from this nice tasty baboo-oh...too soon?"

[globalzero]

damn,videos like this make humans look so bad and cruel.

[GoobinOut]

Yeah, if only humans could kill mothers then take in that mother's young as their own......Ahhh what a wonderful world it would be~

Instead we'll just continue to be "bad" and "cruel" instead.

[globalzero]

we have already killed mothers,daughters,fathers,sons and not for our survival but for our pure pleasure...

If you can't understand my point keep your sarcasm for yourself.Thanks

[GoobinOut]

OK~~ Then WHAT exactly IS your point?

You said this video of an animal killing another animal makes humans look bad~

Care to explain HOW?

And you can keep your opinion of my sarcasm to yourself~

I'll say whatever I want when confronted with idiotic statements.

Hell, I'll say whatever I want even when YOU aren't the one I'm responding to.

In short, I don't need your permission to comment on ANYTHING.

Thanks

[randomchik16]

Wow, talk about an "idiotic statement".

Animals kill for survival. It's not like the leopard knew there was a baby. Unlike the countless people that knowingly kill other people, not only when it is not for the sake of surviving, but when they /know/ that the person has (or even is) a child or any other kind of innocent.

There is an incredible difference between an animal killing for a meal to live, and humans who slaughter each other and other creatures for no real reason.

[randomchik16]

mh, I love youtube not putting this where it's supposed to be. this is a reply to GoobinOut.

This video is amazing, I agree with globalzero.

[GoobinOut]

I like how you open your idiotic statement with a disclaimer about JUST how idiotic you are about to be, randomchik.

I never said there was ANYTHING wrong with what the animal did. I don't care whether or not it knew there was a baby. Go BACK and RE-READ what globalzero said and what I said in response. There is NOTHING in this vid that "makes humans look so bad and cruel" NOTHING at all.You left wing, tree-hugging wackos need to just stop with this teary-eyed crap. You make us sick~

Peace~

[PukaMan]

randomchik16, I felt you should know that leopards have been observed to kill animals for sport, just like humans do.

[bubblegirlno1]

How amazing!!!

[789leo987]

wow, that is very cool

[thatgirlkelly1]

3:37 monkey looks sad. like he misses his mom :(

[Spon44]

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL SELF INTEREST!

The best refrigerator in Africa ... when you don't have electricity ... is keeping your food alive ...

[KingofMetalHeart]

0.0 ^^

[ilovetoeatrice]

lol i love the squeaks the baby baboon makes

[IceCreamAttack]

OMG that's so cute! <3 Feel sry fot the baboon's mom though, R.I.P !

[lysel3]

True; If the baby's mom hadn't just given birth & busy caring for him, she would've lived. She had her arms around him, couldn't get away/didn't want to leave him. Her instinct to protect & save him, made her give up her life. If you watch the video again, you'll see her arms around him, even as she's killed/dragged off!

Animal moms are most vulnerable shortly after birth. Nature makes it so she's TOTALLY focused on her baby/making sure he survives. She didn't notice the danger to herself.

[tbjessen]

Allahu Akbar... truly...

[streeetfighter]

A Mother is Greater than God From Any Book

[ramans11]

true..

[slafkec]

this clearly shows how perverted mother nature can be

[lysel3]

Not so much "Perversion" as Irony; the mother baboon, distracted by caring for her newborn, recovering from birthing, was vulnerable to attack. Had she not just given birth, the leopard wouldn't have managed to attack & killed her. She'd have sounded the alarm & gotten help from the colony! The leopard would've died or run off.

Sadly, though the leopard didn't kill the baby, she couldn't feed him either. He grew quiet from hunger, not winter chill! He probably starved; nature is cruel :(

[thalis2006]

the bamboon wont let go of that tree

[Ashloomis]

That baboon sure was lucky he was cute!

[ganjauk13]

amazing!

[pukimakmu]

aisyah rocks !

[GTAddicts]

I wonder if the leopard ate him for breakfast

[thebluedragon07]

no she didn't.

[brahimbug]

humans have something to learn from lagadema

[ChocolatesABC]

you have to wonder what's going through the lepaord's mind. I mean, it without a doubt, would not hesitate to bring down a day old gazel or something, what made it so motherly towards thsi baby baboon? Now that's a sight you would not likly see again in a lifetime of filming.

[sunking25]

would of been funnier if the leapord ate the baby right at the end with the soft music lmao

[ChristieLG76]

Obviously the baby slowly starves to death over the next few days and that's sad. Remember, it's a newborn and needs its mothers milk to survive.

[crushermeeko1]

i think it's so sad since in the end the baby dies

[Sure2Vers191]

wow, look how mercifull the christian god is.

[Mowtendoo]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[mansonii]

Don't give credit to whom it's not due.

[chicodkid]

The leopard saved the baby baboon for breakfast the next morning with a couple of eggs over easy. Why do you think leopard kept licking the baby ? Mmmmm....good !!

[Underthefold]

pause at 3:38 omg and u call that compassionate.... THATS CHILD ABUSE SMACKING A ONE DAY OLD UPSIDE THE HEAD LIKE THAT!!!!!!!

[cypher1554R]

Yeah.. How beautiful, right..? I bet, if I killed a mother and stole her baby, you wouldn't be so damn impressed..

[Tanishamc]

lol CAUSE UR NOT A WiLD BEAST

[groznij]

Yet, if he did, he would be considered just that.

[lysel3]

If YOU killed a mother, would it be because you're hungry, & doing what is natural? The leopard is a "predator", baboon is her "prey"!

The leopard did not "steal her baby"; she found the baby attached to "the kill", and spared the baby ... point being, all creatures have a "maternal instinct"! The leopard was a female!

[wookiedog]

wow. that is so good to watch. if only human beings were like that...

[iman99islam]

salam allaikom...i have no other word for that then subhanallah...:-)

[bobsmith9206]

subhanallah how cute :).

[ruhenabegum]

subhanallah

[Andyxiko]

most beatifull thing i ever saw *

[thu786]

Sunhanallah. Imagine Allah swt mercy if he has only sent one portion of mercy to the earth for all his creatures and kept the rest with himself! Wasalaam

[ASA753]

subhanuallah how wonderful is this, Allah Arkbar there is doubt.

[ramans11]

there is doubt??

[ASA753]

oops!.... astargfurallah..... Allah Akbar there is NO doubt.

thanks for pointing that out.

Salam

[ramans11]

just joking.. walaikum as salaam

[Muslim4Life84]

SubhanAllah! wow Glory and praise be to God. MashAllah

[Greywolf1389]

SubhanAllah how beautiful this was

[hajghaith]

Subhan Allah.

[BoriChumba]

SubhaanALLAH

[usmanaman]

SubhanAllah,

[jez2562]

Allah u akbar . Allah is the greatest

[elKosovi]

SubhanAllah, subhanAllah, subhanAllah!

[asadmanzoor]

Very nice I've heard that Leopard do care some time deer too