Animal Moral?

[Heros4gold]

I believe that good and bad can be found within Every species and race...there is no superiority, Just Choices

[tontsa911]

Humans think they are so much better than any other species, when it's actually the opposite.

[smoke50niggaz]

Damn nature, you scary.

[miaselpalanca]

the most dramatic scene..

1:31 - "I Failed"

[CrazyPsychoBunni]

how the hell do people who watch these kids of video all of a sudden start talking about god? O_o....i just don't understand

[greystateofmind]

@CrazyPsychoBunni There is an arguement that creationist have. That Without religion we wouldnt have any moral.

[CrazyPsychoBunni]

@greystateofmind Eh....that is an interesting argument but...something about it doesn't stand right in my mind... i don't know what, but it just doesn't make sense...maybe it is because it animals, who are rather highly intelligent i might add, but it just doesn't seem right to mix animals with religion, i don't know :/ that is my view, no offense to those who are religious

[CrazyPsychoBunni]

@greystateofmind you know, i think i know why now, its because of animal instincts, when you looks back on some other video of animals saving other animals it usually has to do with some kind of parental instincts, wasn't the animal that was attacked a baby? I believe that Hippo, saw a "baby" getting attacked and went to help it...i don't know for some reason that seems right in my book haha, i am pretty sure i didn't make sense but oh well :P

[navneetsohanpal]

this hippo is mike tyson

[MerlinoKid]

It is the simple recognition of a potent predator. The words "Do unto others, as you wish others to do unto you" has nothing to do with religion, but I'm sure if the hippo was being attacked, it would wish to be helped. Wouldn't you? :P

[sr230399]

Human being still have a lot to learn with animals

[b53O]

Lol @ all the comments saying it's staged. You nerds and your conspiracy theories need to take off that tin foil hat and get out of your mother's basement.

[Catcherintherye11111]

so act fast when you know somethings up or you might lose it.

[iColorX3]

it looks like the hippo is eating the poor thing at 1:06

[iColorX3]

i looks like the hippo is eating the poor thing at 1:06

[CapitanoGUC]

when hippos are so good minded, the camera man should ped the hippo once ...:-D

[Jacobparkour]

It looks so staged, if it isn't can you then show me the full footage?

Look how it cuts from 21sec-22sec, this can be a whole new impala, why do they do this? and again, the clips dont show us that the hippe is scaring away the crocodile, at: 0.36: it shows a hippe running in the water, then another clips comes where a crocodile is swimming away, if this wasnt staged, then they would have shown full clips. so parts of this clip looks very staged to me

[superfatamusic]

@Jacobparkour

The way it's been edited here it looks kind of fishy. The original footage from the impala crawling onto land to the hippo trying to revive it is rather lengthy. But this really gets lost.

Anyway, this is not an unknown phenomena. Though rare, there are many confirmed reports on cross specie empathy. So it's not simply a case of people misinterpeting things (like they often do) It's important to neither asign animals capabilities they dont have, nor take away those they DO have.

[superfatamusic]

@Jacobparkour

I'll upload it if I'm able to find it. Been years since I saw the original footage.

[Jacobparkour]

@superfatamusic: sounds good:) i do not denie in anyway that animals can show empathy cross specie, but this upload just in some ways looks staged.

[Jacobparkour]

lol this is staged :D

[superfatamusic]

@Jacobparkour

No, actually it's not. This is well known footage, examined and confirmed. Not done by proffesional film makers.

But, unfortunately, there are examples of staged scenery in nature documentary. But that often revolves around aggression and creating dramatic effects. Staging a showcase of empathy in an aggresive animal is hardly possible in the wild.

[20130807]

i was like <:O the hole time

[openingman]

the same hippo will rape a female hippo to reproduce how moral

[houkou1]

@openingman Rape is such a harsh term i like surprise butt sex better it sound more like a gift.

[TheSimonHarris]

@openingman I was raped by Barry Scott and it made me homersexual!

[Fishmungaloyd]

Evolution. hippo saves prey, crock starves or moves territory, hippo babies are safer.

[lee155912000]

Damn nature you scary!

Poor little guy. Go hippo. They should make a cartoon hippo for children.

[plakplaatje]

nature...I don't get it.

[skeletonmom]

This is amazing considering Hippos are known to be aggressive and capsizing boats crossing the river, even attacking/killing humans who are minding their own business. Really wonderful stuff. Thanks for posting.

[Jasminewynja]

This clip touched me to tears <3

[yusoweird]

dumb people... the part where hippo releases the head was played in reverse... go put it in adobe premier to see for yourself... LOL seriously... people believe everything... so dumb...

[Hedning1390]

why did it do that?

[uglyguy121909]

I nearly dropped a tear watching this video.

[killerinthehounds]

we humans need to learn from this hippo.

[victor256in]

that hipo is kinder than ma old man

[thedefiantrebel]

thats amaising!

[123Atheist]

This was a chapter in a book I own. I didn't think it was filmed.

[mikilavush]

God the Omnipresent moves both the croc, the impala and the hippo, and God knew that this would be filmed, so perhaps God made all this happen to show that he loves the impala, and could have saved it through the hippo, but that he also loves the croc and wants him to have something to eat. A prey reflects the self-sacrificing aspect of God`s being, since God feels everything that a prey feels, but a prey is also punished, since nothing in the creation is absolutely pure after the sin of Adam.

[CKSBoltaction]

@mikilavush If he knew this was being filmed, why did god not just streak accross the plains?

[PlanetoftheAtheists]

@CKSBoltaction wasnt part of His plan

[spectrumdweller]

Looks to me like the hippo wanted the impala for himself and then changed his mind.

[yammyspeed13]

Would it still be moral if the hippo allowed itself to be eaten the next time the crocodile gets hungry.

[NinjaMuffinMaster]

Aw,this is really nice. I've never heard of a Hippo doing that.

[jazminjazmin1]

O_O

[amywinehouse260]

the end is sad

[bdebondadoso]

amazing

[phina510]

Wow thats very cool.

[shredeer]

amazing

[gentorovi]

AWESOME!

[HeelerLove]

"all sentient beings possess buddha nature."

by Budhist prayer for animal liberation on youtube.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@HeelerLove idiot

[pupapou]

that hippo is awesome!!!

[InuMaama87]

this isn't an edited video it was already shown on the national geographic channel numerous times.

[char2]

Go HipPo!!!

[RhinoAts51]

why are there so many ignorant comments about religion on videos like these? What does an event triggering a strange response in a hippo have anything to do with it? How is this sympathy? How do you know the hippo wasn't trying to copy the croc? you have NO IDEA whats going on in these edited videos.

[InuMaama87]

animals don't have religion yet they are still able to feel and sympathize for others. if the hypo was trying to act like the croc it would have ripped the animal to shreds. yet it helps the impala ashore and nuzzils it in it's mouth. were did the hypo get it's morals from? not religion that's for sure. morals are with everyone innately.

[dwoodall8979]

@InuMaama87 very good point.

[Neoscotist]

Sympathy or repulse does not account for right and wrong. If a man feels sympathy to another that killed a Jew, does that make the murderer moral? If a man feels repulsed at the idea of touching a black person, does that make touching black people immoral or staying away from black people good? Feelings alone do not tell us what is right, wrong, good, bad, just or unjust.

[TheTeachingAtheist]

@InuMaama87 Religious people dont' claim morals come from church, they claim they're from God, and would just argue that God gave the hippo morals. I'd guess this hippo associated the small impala with the likes of a a young hippo, which it naturally would protect. Protection of the young is a popular evolutionary trait, as animals that do so tend to have more youth grow up and spread their genes.

[Fleefles]

@InuMaama87 It really scares me that people believe stuff like this. There is no proof the hippo cares about this impala or has emotions such as empathy. It could simply be the hippo is curious about this other animal. My cat will poke at the dead bodies of animals it finds and scoot them around. That doesn't mean it cares about them.

[Fleefles]

If animals had empathy and understand morality, then shouldn't we be throwing them in prison when they kill their young and commit other atrocities to their own species and needlessy torture others? My cat used chew off the limbs of mice and leave them to bleed out to death. Chimps have been known to steal the infants of other chimps and tear them limb from limb. Are these animals being "morally wrong" when they do such things? No. They're not moral/ethical creatures.

[superfatamusic]

@Fleefles

Humans have done all the things you mention and EVEN WORSE.

Worse, because we use our intellect to develop methods that prolong and maximize the suffering. Human history is full of examples of just that.

People can be both amazingly unselfish and unbelievably mercyless. The same goes with most other social animals. They are, like us, moral/immoral and ethical beings.

The main difference is simply that we put our morality into the systems and structures of our society.

[superfatamusic]

@Fleefles

Well then, I suggest you update your wiew on social animals. The odds of this hippo taking a genuine risk out of "curiosity" is not even minimal compared to the risks it is willing to take out of protective empathy, which is very strong with the hippos. What we saw here was most likely a "missfiring" of empathy, which is unusual in the tough life of the natural, wild world. Unusual, because cross species empathy is not benefitial evolutionary under normal surcomstances.

[MrClosercloser]

@InuMaama87 there are different types of moral my friend.Atheist moral and belevier in god moral are two different things..

[RadicalLefty]

@MrClosercloser Thats right. When atheists are good, it is simply because they like being good because they are good people and know its the right thing to do. They aren't doing it just because they are scared of being punished by an eternity of hell. If you are being good because you think you will gain something from it (like a place in heaven), then you aren't being good for the right reasons. So I reckon atheists are more likely to go to heaven (if it exists) than believers.

[MrClosercloser]

@RadicalLefty i'm so glad that someone has the same opionion as i do.you so god damn right :) i was saying that for a long time to my friends who are believing in god

[anguinan]

@InuMaama87 They gets its moral from Animal Planet, where else?

[osalcido85]

Looks to me more like a cleverly edited video of a hippo just being curious...

It saw the splashing and came over to see what was going on, scaring the croc.

Then it started nibbling at the impala out of curiosity.

You see the impala still alive when its laying on the embankment. Then when the hippo puts his mouth around it and then spits it out again, its dead. The hippo probably crushed his neck.

[dialeras]

It's obviously edited.

We don't get to see the hippo fighting or frighting away the crocodrile. And we don't see how the hippo leaves the body dead or alive.

And what's more hippos eat meat, there are dozens of videos in youtube of hippos stealing the prey from lions or crocs, check them out.

[Fleefles]

@osalcido85 Yep. Animal documentaries are often staged or pieced and edited together to make up some story that they think viewers will find interesting.

[JAMTAM]

That was amazing!

[InuMaama87]

sympathy.... i didn't check

[InuMaama87]

Oh I wonder what the church or temples have to say about this one. Where did the hypo gets its morals from? He obviously has never heard of the teachings of Jesus Christ or Allah. So why did he feel sympothy for the Impala?

[deluxsound123]

thats becuase we all know whats right and wrong innately..and thats why i dont need to go to church...i already know whats right and wrong and its my choice to do whatever i want as long as iam willing to deal with what comes next...

[Aarontlondon]

lol, u are sooo right!!