Nature must take it's course? Do we still live in caves and at the mercy of weather? It's man's nature to master and control, right? Maybe we shouldn't use logic or science? Big deal we interfere and help. It's who we are and what we do, right?
i think people should interfere in cases like this, i mean, we interfere in everything else. why would we kill and break families of animals up with no concern, but then leave animals to suffer needlessly "because it's nature". pretty messed up logic. instead of shooting the narrator they should have shot the 2 animals which were clearly suffering and without a doubt dying.
being separated from it's mother is possible. but it's also possible that the mother had been killed and eaten by something (i.e. croc, lion, etc) or had died of sickness, which isn't mentioned.
@apprec8ive You must have been watching something else. I loaded this video with my voiceover frm the beginning. It doesn't make a lot of sense unless you hear the story that goes with it.
It's a little too late for the "let nature take it's course" approach! Humanity for so long now has over-encroached on nature that even in the expanses of Africa the effects are felt....Just one example is, wealthy ego-maniacs hunt the wildlife, especially the predators which has a ripple effect toward the herbivores...another is population over expansion where the animals come off second best...
this is both sweet and sad. They should have taken both of them in for treatment. Getting shot for helping? They really need to focus on the poachers, instead of the people who wish to help and not harm.
you just did the right thing don't mind this ignorant people they know nothing about survival of the fittest BTW I like your voice you could be a professional narrator
Did the hippo get contact while the wildebeast was alive? I mean, did it accept the hippo eventually? Or was it always fearful of the hippo and died before the hippo could show it was just giving comfort? The tape is cut halfway so its not clear.
it is clear, the hippo died and nature took its course. although it looks sad, these dying beasts are also food for other creatures to survive and that's how nature works and preserves each other.
This is very sad, but I agree that we should not interfere with nature; there is a reason for what happened here. Just because we don't know the reason does not give us the right to interfere.
To those of you who think only the fittest of humans should survive; let me guess, you folks are in the fittest crowd? Uh, huh, I thought so.
its so sad but what we humans r doing to the babbies of other humans? by making and using weapons getting into wars just for the resources and to sell our brand of weapons we r cruel then these animals
There is no inherent value to the lives of less intelligent animals. Without humans, life on this planet would spend the next couple million years staying very much the same until another animal developed the societal intelligence to take control of the planet. We however are intelligent and dextrous enough to modify our environment and leave the planet. We are the best thing this planet has created imo.
@CitizenOvTheWorld -yes I am ignorant! Africa is big. Born in Swaziland.Lived for a year with the nomads in Sudan. Crossed Africa twice on a horse. Speak 3 African languages. Which language do you speak? I ask because people spend years in Africa not bothering to learn the language-come to Africa live in luxury -sentimental about the Hippo but ignore the poverty. I worked as an “Idiot” so I have some tragic Hippo stories (human tragedies). Hippos are the most dangerous animals in Africa.
If anyone needs a hand its nature. All we do is destroy nature, at the very least we could give it a hand. I realize hippo's are not an endangered species but so what, neither are humans. They should have helped the baby hippo. The term "let nature take its course" is outdated. In this say and age we have to help nature any chance we get because who knows when it will be gone.
@opsmon Well, like the park rangers said, if it had been abandoned by the rest it's for a reason. The hippo would have either been killed by another animal (including other hippos), left alone in the river, or died of whatever ailment it had (had it actually contracted one). Every path would have led to the death of the hippo. If it was abandoned by the herd because it had some form of infectious disease, it wouldn't be worth trying to save the animal and risking the lives of the other animals.
In the wild mothers are very protective of their offspring and the park rangers are correct that if the baby was separated from its herd it was no accident but b/c it wasz rejected as unfit for some reason that we don't know. Saying the rangers are stupid is VEZRY stupid. Our advanced societies by keeping even the unfit alive and creating overpopulation are creating unbalance. On the other hand we make war so the killings reduce the population but even the fit get killed. Stupid homo sapiens.
Mother may have thought her child had died too so left with her other babies, them rangers could have coaxed that baby into the water and maybe could have followed its mothers scent after getting a soak.
It is a very sad thing to see but there are a couple factors that people aren't taking into consideration.
A baby hippo weighs over 100 pounds when it is born. That baby was already a couple of months old so it probably weighed at least 200 lbs. It was also a wild animal, so even if they had tried to push it into the water, it would have just run away, then come right back, or it would have fought them off. Imagine fighting with a 200 lb mass of muscle. Even baby hippos are not defenseless
It is a very sad thing to see but there are a couple factors that people aren't taking into consideration.
A baby hippo weighs over 100 pounds when it is born. That baby was already a couple of months old so it probably weighed at least 200 lbs. It would have been afraid of people, so even if they had tried to push it into the water, would have just run away, and come right back, or it would have fought them off. Imagine fighting with a 200 lb mass of muscle. Even baby hippos are not defenseless
It is a very sad thing to see but there are a couple factors that people aren't taking into consideration.
A baby hippo weighs over 100 pounds when it is born. That baby was already a couple of months old so it probably weighed at least 200 lbs. It would have been afraid of people, so even if they had tried to push it into the water, would have just run away then come right back, or it would have fought them off. Imagine fighting with a 200 lb mass of muscle. Even baby hippos are not defenseless
@DuellMeNoob I do actually. Maybe it's because i'm still young and full of empathy. I feel sorry for the little hippo who was searching for affection and care. And seeing it die in that state. And yes, it's called nature. But it's not like we, humans, are living according the rules of nature. There is no more real "survival of the fittest" within humans. We have money, healthcare, homes, food. Some of us don't, sadly. But a lot of us do. We are not living according the rules of real nature.
Who's the Idiot? Here is one of the few places left on earth were man is not allowed to interfere. Maybe the citezenOVtheworld can come here to Africa and teach crocodiles to eat algae and lions and hyhena to eat grass. There are too few places like this left on earth were the stark but beutiful laws of nature rule without the sentiments and hand of man. The truth is that reserves only need managers (the ones you call idiots) to keep idiots that want to interfere in some way at bay.
@forbarenga, I've plenty of WILD land in Africa. Come to Africa? Spent 6 months there annually in yrs growing up. Also during Univ hols. Still have the land joined to family land. How ‘bout, you? What've YOU done for other earth? Making ignorant presumptions? Or d'you prefer seeing humans breading, being kept alive while disrespecting earth & or care to preserve its creatures all ways possible. Will continue keeping my conscience clear. Making sure preservation continues with what I'm able.
@CitizenOvTheWorld I have made presumptions based on the content of your letter. Sadly you are all to common in Africa. Africa has amazing beuty mixed with poverty and very complex socio enviromental moral delima's. Talking of your farm in Africa and humans "breeding" while getting sentimental about a baby hippo kind of gives your species away. Gin and Tonic, Sentimentality and Preservation we dont need . We need sustainable intergrated conservation. Next time you come try living in a village.
@CitizenOvTheWorld - Presumptions based on the content of your writting.Talking of your farm in Africa and humans "breeding" and sentimentality for baby hippo kind of gives you away. Africa has amazing beuty with very complex socio enviromental moral delima's. Gin and Tonic, Sentimentality and preservation does not help . We need sustainable intergrated conservation. When I was and "idiot" I negotiated with those "breeders" for land for hippos to live and die in peace. You have stolen land.
If the Tanzanians really build the planned Highway through Serengeti, the migration is threatened and the "greatest show on Earth" as the woman calls it will stop.
not to mention the baby was treating the wildebeest as if it was its mother. Do you think if you tried to take her away from her "mother" her companion, her only company in what is obviously a tough time for both of them, That she would have let you without a struggle. The hippo stayed with him/her even after it died. Pretty sure if you push it back in the river it would just come back out again.
For those of you who think they should have helped, When a horse breaks its leg, its life is ruined, we put horses down for a simple broken leg. A wildebeest isn't domesticated, it would not recognize that people are helping, thus making it even more dangerous, they would get hurt. Plus rangers are not stupid enough to let Tourists go near an injured wild animal and help a hippo next to a river filled with crocks. Just asking to ruin your vacation.
That disturbs me when they say let nature take its course. So if a person sees another person choking or drowning for example then they shouldn't help them either, they should let nature take its course too right.........
@hashmats if you are at some place at some time in the event that somthing takes place then there is a reason why you are there. I mean if your mother was getting raped and i so happen to see it would you feel the same if i let it happen and said oh it was meant to be....
Heartbreaking...absolutely compelling, poignant and heartbreaking. OMG...how could they not have helped this little baby, so in need of a Mother. There is simply no excuse. Heartbreaking. I am crying...this poor little baby hippo, with no one willing to help it, even though people wanted to. OMG So shocking and horribly sad. Thanks for posting and waking us up.
If there job doesn't allow them to help animals in need like that, I would never take that job. I can't sit around watching two helpless animals, just die off.
wow, thats quite a compelling video, its so sad. it breaks my heart to know that even though those rangers could have, they chose not to save the baby hippo.
i wish they wouldve done something more about it, but at least you guys got it on tape
Imagine if only the fittest Humans survived. It would be a much more balanced planet. Imagine then that those that have survived actually Respect their environment and live accordingly. The fekking idiots who run this reserve are so quick with answers and not enough fekking action.
@c0nsensu0mnium The fittest humans do survive. The weak ones die everyday. The cynical outlook of douche bags who think humans are a plight on the planet think animals are somehow the most righteous beings on Earth. Yet, there is no one pointing out how the hippo mother abandoned her baby. Or how the cold hearted wilder-beasts left the sick one to die in the mud. We as humans care about the sick and dying. Animals could give a shit. A dead baby hippo could feed crocs, lions, or hyenas. You tool.
And you probably wouldn't be around to sit on youtube and post your dumb shit. Yeah that would be a better excistance. Fucking idiot.
A weak human body does not equals less worth to live in our society, because the weakest of bodies can have the greatest of intellects. Maybe we should just kill of dumbasses like yourself so we don't need to lecture you about the difference between human values and society, against nature and it's cycles that have always been the same.
@c0nsensu0mnium true if you seen the AVATAR that is an idea what we might have changed into if we let only the fittest survive.. but we dont and still continue to keep diseases living amongst us too bad
@c0nsensu0mnium Imagine if only the fittest Humans survived. It would be a much more balanced planet. Imagine then that those that have survived actually respect their environment and live accordingly. The fucking idiots who run this reserve are so quick with answers and not enough fucking action.
@xtrastrange: The policy in reserves is to let "nature take its course" even if there IS somebody there to help. Go figure, they're doing stem cell research, finding cures for cancer and so on for HUMANS who OVERPOPULATE the world & DESECRATE nature in all aspects & from every angle, yet they say, let nature take its course, only the fittest survive, in reserves. What a double standard it is that these idiots live with.
@CitizenOvTheWorld Oh my god I hate people like you. If humans are such a problem you should maybe think about ceasing to exist or contribute to any society. I mean if you truly are a citizen of the world that means that you use mass transit which pollutes and destroys the earth. The simple fact that you use electricity means you are contributing to the death of the planet. If you eat anything you are killing the planet. Global citizen my ass, self righteous hypocrite is more like it.
@CitizenOvTheWorld i agree with you but over there its a different life. i think its the same for humans there but not positive. but i think it should be the same survival of the fittest for humans and even Euthanasia for the ones that are on hospice and want to die.
Well sure if you wanna go aroound letting people die in cancer and ignore people needing help, you go and do that, and we'll see how many people will like you. Tens of thousands of humans starve to death every day, go bloody figure how well we treat each other.
You could also try to go and save every freaking animal in a reserve that gets injured or faces death. Heck maybe we should make lions vegetarians? Maybe you could pay for all of that too?
Right, but humans are increasingly threatening their habitat. They are already an endangered species. In a few decades none might be left outside zoos. It's not that they are going out of their way to attack humans, that's a misconception, the reality is the opposite unfortunately.
It's sad to see on film, but when you get to see it in person, you understand how everything in nature has its place and that nature is not kind and sympathetic, but that every process begins and ends in a very efficient cycle.
The hippo and wildebeest died and its sad but their carcasses fed a lot of predators/scavengers that depend on that type of thing. Its all part of the cycle.
If we helped every animal we saw in the wild, they would soon depend on us. I mean, that's in Africa and the animals are way more untamed and not used to humans coming so close. In the states, animals are so used to us, they already depend on us, if it wasn't for us they would probably die, no joke. So you see why pushing it in the water to fallow other hippos maybe bad. If it was sick, it could get other hippos sick, and so on, sometimes it's just better to let it be.
As a species humans have tampered with every corner of this world and anyone who says it's not our place to help another creature who needs it is heartless. If we can do something to let an animal live or stop suffering then we should. No one would leave an injured child so why do we leave an injured child animal?
let me put this to you....imagine that the wilderbeast carcass is picked to the bone the next day by scavengars while the hippo carcass is left alone.....a day later a lioness and her cubs within a day of dieing from starvation come across the hippo carcass, eat it and live happily ever after....image that they did as you suggest and take the hippo away for instance, then the lion family would have died, its called cause and effect...the wild needs to stay wild
Yes, it's a tragic and very endearing image of the Hippo and the Wildebeest sharing their last moments together. Some people say leave the hippo to die and others say help the hippo. I'm a fan of hippos so I'm inclined to help the little guy.
It's not the zoo dumb-asses. It's Africa. If the baby hippo was sick and the mother or the herd had rejected it then that was for the survival of the entire herd! Don't we as humans quarantine our sick? Watch '28days later' to better understand the repurcussions of interfering when you know nothing. So ignorant. So stupid.
let nature take it's course??? BULL, if a living thing is suffering or needs help, YOU HELP IT! that baby hippo should have been helped, not left there to starve!
I don't think steering an animal in the right direction is interfering with nature's course, if anything its preserving it. The baby hippo is obviously lost and confused. If it doesn't instinctually know it should go to water why is it wrong for us to help it out? If it were an endangered or threatened species the park rangers would "interfere" in a second. Sometimes I just don't understand their logic.
I agree. Intelligent animals survive mostly by helping each other and we are intelligent animals. That baby hippo demonstrated both character and a will to survive that should have earned it a truckload of help rather than a truckload of apathetic staring.
at first i thought the same, why don't we save them? we're part of nature too, an if we saved them then so be it , that the course that nature took, because we're part of it. But after she said that the baby hippo might have been sick and they kicked him out, then i changed my mind. They are right in that case, because we don't know the nature of hippos, and maybe they don't want him, because it might get them sick. So just leave it up to raw nature, as opposed to human nature.
Well thats sad,I feel even more sad for the baby hippo he ended up been someone elses lunch but I guess thats nature!
gatapr100 11 hours ago
Very sad
TheBluemaui 1 day ago
Oh noooooo, I love baby hippo's, :(
PunkStar6661 6 days ago
Nature must take it's course? Do we still live in caves and at the mercy of weather? It's man's nature to master and control, right? Maybe we shouldn't use logic or science? Big deal we interfere and help. It's who we are and what we do, right?
trexinvert 1 week ago 2
help the small hippo
SuperLivestyle 1 week ago
Did the baby hippo also die? Thanks, good video.
7mumfred7 1 week ago
they baby hippo is so cute. im sure he has found a better place now
mike82y 1 week ago
@mike82y Yea he did.,in some crocadile's stomach!
gatapr100 11 hours ago
i think people should interfere in cases like this, i mean, we interfere in everything else. why would we kill and break families of animals up with no concern, but then leave animals to suffer needlessly "because it's nature". pretty messed up logic. instead of shooting the narrator they should have shot the 2 animals which were clearly suffering and without a doubt dying.
nbarry2240 2 weeks ago
@nbarry2240 That's just the point, we interfere in EVERYTHING else. They were just there to observe, and that's what they did.
ytapple16 1 week ago
ya , feel badly for them :' (
Sinjaxx 2 weeks ago
That was so incredibly sad. So sad for the fate of both animals.
georgethewondermutt 2 weeks ago
being separated from it's mother is possible. but it's also possible that the mother had been killed and eaten by something (i.e. croc, lion, etc) or had died of sickness, which isn't mentioned.
rsuriyop 2 weeks ago
Amazing video. Thanks.
utubekula 2 weeks ago
Were you looking at getting a job out of doing the voiceover? Originally when I watched this video, back in 2007 it had no voiceover.
apprec8ive 3 weeks ago
@apprec8ive You must have been watching something else. I loaded this video with my voiceover frm the beginning. It doesn't make a lot of sense unless you hear the story that goes with it.
LoraCain 3 weeks ago 2
how come we don´t say " let nature have it´s course " when we push almost every creature to extinct? double standard and bullshit if you ask me
syh11s029 3 weeks ago
i like narrator speech...
its very sensitive video! whats happen to hippo?
mustafanazif 3 weeks ago
@mustafanazif dead
Sinjaxx 2 weeks ago
@mustafanazif OMG the Hippo is dead jeez!
gatapr100 11 hours ago
So What Happened To The Hippo????????
Stifle771 1 month ago
@Stifle771 your mom adopted it
glenzlbc 2 weeks ago
@Stifle771 He was adopted by a crocodile Fam passing by and lived happily ever after,jeez what u think happen?
gatapr100 11 hours ago
It's a little too late for the "let nature take it's course" approach! Humanity for so long now has over-encroached on nature that even in the expanses of Africa the effects are felt....Just one example is, wealthy ego-maniacs hunt the wildlife, especially the predators which has a ripple effect toward the herbivores...another is population over expansion where the animals come off second best...
feebeechan1 1 month ago
Utterly heartbreaking
1888rooney 1 month ago
Thats so sad poor baby. I know life can be cruel. Its so sad.
jazz31162 1 month ago
DAMN...
weird2325 1 month ago
I find this very sad to watch, but i know this is nature :-(
karelleimena 2 months ago
this is both sweet and sad. They should have taken both of them in for treatment. Getting shot for helping? They really need to focus on the poachers, instead of the people who wish to help and not harm.
TheKittyWonder 2 months ago
I am a professional narrator so thank you!
LoraCain 2 months ago
@LoraCain at least YOU tried to rescue him..and your'e a very nice narrator by the way
luutsii 1 week ago
you just did the right thing don't mind this ignorant people they know nothing about survival of the fittest BTW I like your voice you could be a professional narrator
riekotz 2 months ago
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not sure what country justifies murder for interfering with nature....
Jaybear2828 2 months ago
not sure what country justifies murder with interfering with nature....
Jaybear2828 2 months ago
i wonder if the hippo died
jbplastering 3 months ago
@jbplastering take a guess!
gatapr100 11 hours ago
Thanks for sharing! Peace.
EtoshaNa 3 months ago
1:09 XD
ILShowster 3 months ago
Did the hippo get contact while the wildebeast was alive? I mean, did it accept the hippo eventually? Or was it always fearful of the hippo and died before the hippo could show it was just giving comfort? The tape is cut halfway so its not clear.
gp4nut 3 months ago
@gp4nut
it is clear, the hippo died and nature took its course. although it looks sad, these dying beasts are also food for other creatures to survive and that's how nature works and preserves each other.
younguy1979 3 months ago 2
yeah there going to shoot you to save the nature... a little exaggerated much Mr author ?
MrAndrewIbsen 3 months ago
@MrAndrewIbsen It's Ms. Author as you can hear from my voiceover on the video and No I don't exaggerate. It was made very clear to us.
LoraCain 3 months ago
@LoraCain yes, just like when you go to Mexico, they make it very clear to not buy any weed....hahaha!
mikedvc 3 months ago
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riekotz 2 months ago
i was :'''(
WTFonlinegamer 4 months ago
:'(
NusaybahBintKa3b 4 months ago
This is very sad, but I agree that we should not interfere with nature; there is a reason for what happened here. Just because we don't know the reason does not give us the right to interfere.
To those of you who think only the fittest of humans should survive; let me guess, you folks are in the fittest crowd? Uh, huh, I thought so.
Loveliest52 5 months ago
Aww...cute baby hippo. So sad for both the animals.
LindaD1982 5 months ago
its so sad but what we humans r doing to the babbies of other humans? by making and using weapons getting into wars just for the resources and to sell our brand of weapons we r cruel then these animals
kabayegainsaf 5 months ago
Thumbs up if you love hippos
gp4nut 5 months ago
What is a hippo?
mandrake2008 5 months ago
What happen? Did the hippo die as well?
wolfxinstein 6 months ago
WARNING!! heartbreaking video
ksionc100 6 months ago
that hippo had heart!
KDUBIN90 6 months ago
@KDUBIN90 It was a good hippo
thechadman69 3 weeks ago
that hippo is way too adorable, I want one. And then it will grow up and be as big as my suv. Such is life.
PAAKWAMEPAA 7 months ago
nice video description madam
2summon 7 months ago
oooohhhh, why is the hippo always so cute...
periesicsd 7 months ago
Awwwwwwwwwwwww
aliceapril436 7 months ago
why they dont help
powerofyousful 7 months ago
There is no inherent value to the lives of less intelligent animals. Without humans, life on this planet would spend the next couple million years staying very much the same until another animal developed the societal intelligence to take control of the planet. We however are intelligent and dextrous enough to modify our environment and leave the planet. We are the best thing this planet has created imo.
CarrierHasArrived 7 months ago
its the way god intended...its best if we leave them alone. thats there world, not ours.
putaface101 8 months ago
how could u just not love this,poor little hippo
0bamasmama 9 months ago
@0bamasmama Hippos kill more humans than any other African animal.
chade1983 8 months ago
they taste just like buffalo
aznyang16 9 months ago
mmhm wildebeest taste soooo good
SuckMyMnMs 9 months ago
Awwww... :(
StormDevilery 10 months ago
@CitizenOvTheWorld -yes I am ignorant! Africa is big. Born in Swaziland.Lived for a year with the nomads in Sudan. Crossed Africa twice on a horse. Speak 3 African languages. Which language do you speak? I ask because people spend years in Africa not bothering to learn the language-come to Africa live in luxury -sentimental about the Hippo but ignore the poverty. I worked as an “Idiot” so I have some tragic Hippo stories (human tragedies). Hippos are the most dangerous animals in Africa.
forbarenga 11 months ago
Thats what i call the two amigos!
DMkapfenberg 11 months ago
There was no interfering, just a baby thats mother thinks is dead!
Dumbass!
HateFenians 11 months ago
If anyone needs a hand its nature. All we do is destroy nature, at the very least we could give it a hand. I realize hippo's are not an endangered species but so what, neither are humans. They should have helped the baby hippo. The term "let nature take its course" is outdated. In this say and age we have to help nature any chance we get because who knows when it will be gone.
opsmon 1 year ago 9
@opsmon Well, like the park rangers said, if it had been abandoned by the rest it's for a reason. The hippo would have either been killed by another animal (including other hippos), left alone in the river, or died of whatever ailment it had (had it actually contracted one). Every path would have led to the death of the hippo. If it was abandoned by the herd because it had some form of infectious disease, it wouldn't be worth trying to save the animal and risking the lives of the other animals.
KornwallisTV 3 weeks ago
Let nature find its own way.
THEX19MAN 1 year ago
In the wild mothers are very protective of their offspring and the park rangers are correct that if the baby was separated from its herd it was no accident but b/c it wasz rejected as unfit for some reason that we don't know. Saying the rangers are stupid is VEZRY stupid. Our advanced societies by keeping even the unfit alive and creating overpopulation are creating unbalance. On the other hand we make war so the killings reduce the population but even the fit get killed. Stupid homo sapiens.
Khamomil 1 year ago
Mother may have thought her child had died too so left with her other babies, them rangers could have coaxed that baby into the water and maybe could have followed its mothers scent after getting a soak.
HateFenians 11 months ago
It is a very sad thing to see but there are a couple factors that people aren't taking into consideration.
A baby hippo weighs over 100 pounds when it is born. That baby was already a couple of months old so it probably weighed at least 200 lbs. It was also a wild animal, so even if they had tried to push it into the water, it would have just run away, then come right back, or it would have fought them off. Imagine fighting with a 200 lb mass of muscle. Even baby hippos are not defenseless
vettegirl06 1 year ago
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It is a very sad thing to see but there are a couple factors that people aren't taking into consideration.
A baby hippo weighs over 100 pounds when it is born. That baby was already a couple of months old so it probably weighed at least 200 lbs. It would have been afraid of people, so even if they had tried to push it into the water, would have just run away, and come right back, or it would have fought them off. Imagine fighting with a 200 lb mass of muscle. Even baby hippos are not defenseless
vettegirl06 1 year ago
It is a very sad thing to see but there are a couple factors that people aren't taking into consideration.
A baby hippo weighs over 100 pounds when it is born. That baby was already a couple of months old so it probably weighed at least 200 lbs. It would have been afraid of people, so even if they had tried to push it into the water, would have just run away then come right back, or it would have fought them off. Imagine fighting with a 200 lb mass of muscle. Even baby hippos are not defenseless
vettegirl06 1 year ago
"it was heart breaking to see...:"
lol, this is called nature. i mean c´mon, who is feeling sorry for this? just ridiculous...
DuellMeNoob 1 year ago
@DuellMeNoob I do actually. Maybe it's because i'm still young and full of empathy. I feel sorry for the little hippo who was searching for affection and care. And seeing it die in that state. And yes, it's called nature. But it's not like we, humans, are living according the rules of nature. There is no more real "survival of the fittest" within humans. We have money, healthcare, homes, food. Some of us don't, sadly. But a lot of us do. We are not living according the rules of real nature.
mallejamie 1 year ago
Who's the Idiot? Here is one of the few places left on earth were man is not allowed to interfere. Maybe the citezenOVtheworld can come here to Africa and teach crocodiles to eat algae and lions and hyhena to eat grass. There are too few places like this left on earth were the stark but beutiful laws of nature rule without the sentiments and hand of man. The truth is that reserves only need managers (the ones you call idiots) to keep idiots that want to interfere in some way at bay.
forbarenga 1 year ago
@forbarenga, I've plenty of WILD land in Africa. Come to Africa? Spent 6 months there annually in yrs growing up. Also during Univ hols. Still have the land joined to family land. How ‘bout, you? What've YOU done for other earth? Making ignorant presumptions? Or d'you prefer seeing humans breading, being kept alive while disrespecting earth & or care to preserve its creatures all ways possible. Will continue keeping my conscience clear. Making sure preservation continues with what I'm able.
CitizenOvTheWorld 11 months ago
@CitizenOvTheWorld I have made presumptions based on the content of your letter. Sadly you are all to common in Africa. Africa has amazing beuty mixed with poverty and very complex socio enviromental moral delima's. Talking of your farm in Africa and humans "breeding" while getting sentimental about a baby hippo kind of gives your species away. Gin and Tonic, Sentimentality and Preservation we dont need . We need sustainable intergrated conservation. Next time you come try living in a village.
forbarenga 11 months ago
@CitizenOvTheWorld - Presumptions based on the content of your writting.Talking of your farm in Africa and humans "breeding" and sentimentality for baby hippo kind of gives you away. Africa has amazing beuty with very complex socio enviromental moral delima's. Gin and Tonic, Sentimentality and preservation does not help . We need sustainable intergrated conservation. When I was and "idiot" I negotiated with those "breeders" for land for hippos to live and die in peace. You have stolen land.
forbarenga 11 months ago
If the Tanzanians really build the planned Highway through Serengeti, the migration is threatened and the "greatest show on Earth" as the woman calls it will stop.
Geofratz 1 year ago
A.C.A.B.
tuatahi 1 year ago
yeah i love that....let nature take its course except when it comes to humans....
jowek70 1 year ago 3
not to mention the baby was treating the wildebeest as if it was its mother. Do you think if you tried to take her away from her "mother" her companion, her only company in what is obviously a tough time for both of them, That she would have let you without a struggle. The hippo stayed with him/her even after it died. Pretty sure if you push it back in the river it would just come back out again.
TheMasterHippy 1 year ago
For those of you who think they should have helped, When a horse breaks its leg, its life is ruined, we put horses down for a simple broken leg. A wildebeest isn't domesticated, it would not recognize that people are helping, thus making it even more dangerous, they would get hurt. Plus rangers are not stupid enough to let Tourists go near an injured wild animal and help a hippo next to a river filled with crocks. Just asking to ruin your vacation.
TheMasterHippy 1 year ago
aww so sad :'(
ddrfaerykitty 1 year ago
@ddrfaerykitty Did the Little Hippo Die to?
jakethesnakerobertz1 1 year ago
helping is not against nature ....
fotljubei 1 year ago 5
@fotljubei yes it is bro, yes it is....
riekotz 2 months ago
Alligators must survive too, they don't buy meat at butcher...
nime8520 1 year ago
aww thats sad :( i just wanna take tha lil hippo home with me soo cute
suggafree123 1 year ago
That disturbs me when they say let nature take its course. So if a person sees another person choking or drowning for example then they shouldn't help them either, they should let nature take its course too right.........
SteelCity1981 1 year ago 10
@SteelCity1981 Yes, you are right in this respect.
hashmats 6 months ago
@hashmats if you are at some place at some time in the event that somthing takes place then there is a reason why you are there. I mean if your mother was getting raped and i so happen to see it would you feel the same if i let it happen and said oh it was meant to be....
SteelCity1981 6 months ago
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riekotz 2 months ago
@riekotz what does human have anything to do with intervention jhole..
SteelCity1981 2 months ago
Lol i'm such a sissy, that broke my heart.
imagineaboringlife 1 year ago
I smell a Disney movie.
Knerdzilla 1 year ago
the cutest little thing,
TheGAGAFULL 1 year ago
sad but thats life in the fast lane .
throwerofturds 1 year ago
Heartbreaking...absolutely compelling, poignant and heartbreaking. OMG...how could they not have helped this little baby, so in need of a Mother. There is simply no excuse. Heartbreaking. I am crying...this poor little baby hippo, with no one willing to help it, even though people wanted to. OMG So shocking and horribly sad. Thanks for posting and waking us up.
Karey
KareyR2 1 year ago
We all die alone.
EliteDoomer 1 year ago 3
i think baby hippo looking for some milk,
BLOODYCLQ 1 year ago
Where was the baby hippos mother?
MegaBaboon1 1 year ago
That's so sad :( Those poor guys, espicially that baby! Atleast s/he didn't die alone..
YumeYume24 1 year ago
mean gnu
higme6 2 years ago
HOW DID THOSE 2 END UP TOGETHER?
TheThenineties 2 years ago
If there job doesn't allow them to help animals in need like that, I would never take that job. I can't sit around watching two helpless animals, just die off.
thathorseguy77 2 years ago
wow, thats quite a compelling video, its so sad. it breaks my heart to know that even though those rangers could have, they chose not to save the baby hippo.
i wish they wouldve done something more about it, but at least you guys got it on tape
ikutsu2001 2 years ago 2
Imagine if only the fittest Humans survived. It would be a much more balanced planet. Imagine then that those that have survived actually Respect their environment and live accordingly. The fekking idiots who run this reserve are so quick with answers and not enough fekking action.
c0nsensu0mnium 2 years ago 19
@c0nsensu0mnium The fittest humans do survive. The weak ones die everyday. The cynical outlook of douche bags who think humans are a plight on the planet think animals are somehow the most righteous beings on Earth. Yet, there is no one pointing out how the hippo mother abandoned her baby. Or how the cold hearted wilder-beasts left the sick one to die in the mud. We as humans care about the sick and dying. Animals could give a shit. A dead baby hippo could feed crocs, lions, or hyenas. You tool.
chade1983 8 months ago
@c0nsensu0mnium
And you probably wouldn't be around to sit on youtube and post your dumb shit. Yeah that would be a better excistance. Fucking idiot.
A weak human body does not equals less worth to live in our society, because the weakest of bodies can have the greatest of intellects. Maybe we should just kill of dumbasses like yourself so we don't need to lecture you about the difference between human values and society, against nature and it's cycles that have always been the same.
Andreazor 6 months ago
@c0nsensu0mnium true if you seen the AVATAR that is an idea what we might have changed into if we let only the fittest survive.. but we dont and still continue to keep diseases living amongst us too bad
chicken4247 6 months ago
@chicken4247
Ha ha ha wtf... we would have changed into Avatars? what a fool! You're one of the "diseases" living amongst us bro.
Romeowasbleeding1 5 months ago
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chicken4247 5 months ago
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@Romeowasbleeding1 sorry but i guss u never went to a science class in your life you are the jackass you uneducated fuck get a life
you dont know shit bout what im talking about so instead of asking like a human you act like a youtube fag that you are little shit
chicken4247 5 months ago
@c0nsensu0mnium Imagine if only the fittest Humans survived. It would be a much more balanced planet. Imagine then that those that have survived actually respect their environment and live accordingly. The fucking idiots who run this reserve are so quick with answers and not enough fucking action.
IsaacD39 5 months ago
No the baby wanted to sit next to what appeared to be a replacement "mother". As you could see at the end of the video.
Such a great video thanks forposting
boykirk 2 years ago
Its not a Rhino, its a Hippo and the Wildebeest is in the babies way, its just trying to get past!
choffle33 2 years ago
the rhino dosen look sick ........the rangers must have saved him from death...
lachun007 2 years ago
1. wasn't a rhino 2. how the hell do you know if its sick if you dont know what it is?
james1x1x1x1 2 years ago
wonderful video......very touchy
lachun007 2 years ago
:(
wasnt there any1 to help him?
xtrastrange 2 years ago
@xtrastrange: The policy in reserves is to let "nature take its course" even if there IS somebody there to help. Go figure, they're doing stem cell research, finding cures for cancer and so on for HUMANS who OVERPOPULATE the world & DESECRATE nature in all aspects & from every angle, yet they say, let nature take its course, only the fittest survive, in reserves. What a double standard it is that these idiots live with.
CitizenOvTheWorld 2 years ago 53
@CitizenOvTheWorld Its the only thing you can expect from Humans.
Pieter15 1 year ago
@CitizenOvTheWorld, yours is just about the smartest and well thought comment I hv read for sometime.......... keep it up.......... cheers.
jazzfusionsoul 1 year ago 3
@CitizenOvTheWorld Oh my god I hate people like you. If humans are such a problem you should maybe think about ceasing to exist or contribute to any society. I mean if you truly are a citizen of the world that means that you use mass transit which pollutes and destroys the earth. The simple fact that you use electricity means you are contributing to the death of the planet. If you eat anything you are killing the planet. Global citizen my ass, self righteous hypocrite is more like it.
chade1983 8 months ago
@CitizenOvTheWorld i agree with you but over there its a different life. i think its the same for humans there but not positive. but i think it should be the same survival of the fittest for humans and even Euthanasia for the ones that are on hospice and want to die.
midnightdream069 8 months ago
@CitizenOvTheWorld I totally agree. All life is precious and it's no crime to lend a helping hand when one can.
carebearnmbr46 8 months ago
@CitizenOvTheWorld
Well sure if you wanna go aroound letting people die in cancer and ignore people needing help, you go and do that, and we'll see how many people will like you. Tens of thousands of humans starve to death every day, go bloody figure how well we treat each other.
You could also try to go and save every freaking animal in a reserve that gets injured or faces death. Heck maybe we should make lions vegetarians? Maybe you could pay for all of that too?
Idealistic, naivë idiot.
Andreazor 6 months ago
oh thats so sad :(
001jay100 2 years ago
hippo are really lovefull animal more then what we can imagen i saw some other films about them they allways with much love to other animals
sad end :(
haskeyem1 2 years ago
they are considered one of the most aggressive animals of africa & they are responsible for killing the mos humans of any animals of africa.
MrHairyNutz 2 years ago
Right, but humans are increasingly threatening their habitat. They are already an endangered species. In a few decades none might be left outside zoos. It's not that they are going out of their way to attack humans, that's a misconception, the reality is the opposite unfortunately.
frugalite 2 years ago
@frugalite
Tell us something we dont know already shesh
boykirk 2 years ago
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frugalite 2 years ago
You don't wanna hear? Well just don't read it then idiot, go back to watching your american idol.
frugalite 2 years ago
It's sad to see on film, but when you get to see it in person, you understand how everything in nature has its place and that nature is not kind and sympathetic, but that every process begins and ends in a very efficient cycle.
tallchick80 2 years ago
Did they both get eaten by crocs in the end?
Logzilla 2 years ago
very sad
Ruffneck555 2 years ago 2
this is heart breaking =(
thojmoto69 2 years ago 2
My heart goes out to both of them!
barak425 2 years ago 4
great video!!
ITEAZR 2 years ago
they meant to be together....
youpheng 2 years ago 2
Read the caption people.
tedpm206 2 years ago
bad camera man he should help
MrLOOL111 2 years ago
human can help .. i mean if lion would eat another animal that is ok .. but the human kills alot of animals now it time to help the nature
xShibukix 2 years ago
Learn english.
yukakoyoshinori 2 years ago
sry for my english i can speak only with punches
xShibukix 2 years ago
LOL
yaroukh 2 years ago
haaaaaa,you funny
Keepskatin 2 years ago
i feel the same way you do...
Relda999 2 years ago
thanks (=
xShibukix 2 years ago
Let Nature take its course. Human intervention as good intentional as it may be, always ends up creating more problems than solving it.
vinnyflintoff 2 years ago 5
Poor baby, I feel sad.
XizelSF 2 years ago 2
The hippo and wildebeest died and its sad but their carcasses fed a lot of predators/scavengers that depend on that type of thing. Its all part of the cycle.
turfturbo 2 years ago
If we helped every animal we saw in the wild, they would soon depend on us. I mean, that's in Africa and the animals are way more untamed and not used to humans coming so close. In the states, animals are so used to us, they already depend on us, if it wasn't for us they would probably die, no joke. So you see why pushing it in the water to fallow other hippos maybe bad. If it was sick, it could get other hippos sick, and so on, sometimes it's just better to let it be.
MissLovelyLindsey 2 years ago
As a species humans have tampered with every corner of this world and anyone who says it's not our place to help another creature who needs it is heartless. If we can do something to let an animal live or stop suffering then we should. No one would leave an injured child so why do we leave an injured child animal?
jammsbro 2 years ago
let me put this to you....imagine that the wilderbeast carcass is picked to the bone the next day by scavengars while the hippo carcass is left alone.....a day later a lioness and her cubs within a day of dieing from starvation come across the hippo carcass, eat it and live happily ever after....image that they did as you suggest and take the hippo away for instance, then the lion family would have died, its called cause and effect...the wild needs to stay wild
bushki 2 years ago
baby hippos are so sweet
Mahoney8T7 2 years ago
Yes, it's a tragic and very endearing image of the Hippo and the Wildebeest sharing their last moments together. Some people say leave the hippo to die and others say help the hippo. I'm a fan of hippos so I'm inclined to help the little guy.
BTC141 2 years ago
Hahaha... yeah, me too... I say help the Hippo.. I mean come on.. helping one little Hippo isn't going to start global warming is it? hehe
crazymike44 2 years ago 2
It's not the zoo dumb-asses. It's Africa. If the baby hippo was sick and the mother or the herd had rejected it then that was for the survival of the entire herd! Don't we as humans quarantine our sick? Watch '28days later' to better understand the repurcussions of interfering when you know nothing. So ignorant. So stupid.
byobrewski 2 years ago
let nature take it's course??? BULL, if a living thing is suffering or needs help, YOU HELP IT! that baby hippo should have been helped, not left there to starve!
barak425 2 years ago 2
Amen, I agree... help the little guy out.. I mean come one, we have the technology... and the medicine... besides.. he was so cute...
crazymike44 2 years ago
I don't think steering an animal in the right direction is interfering with nature's course, if anything its preserving it. The baby hippo is obviously lost and confused. If it doesn't instinctually know it should go to water why is it wrong for us to help it out? If it were an endangered or threatened species the park rangers would "interfere" in a second. Sometimes I just don't understand their logic.
teeohdubble 2 years ago 3
I agree. Intelligent animals survive mostly by helping each other and we are intelligent animals. That baby hippo demonstrated both character and a will to survive that should have earned it a truckload of help rather than a truckload of apathetic staring.
Piscivorus 2 years ago 4
because it's not our place!
Mamboi 2 years ago
sadddddd.. LOL
mvplapd 2 years ago
that so dick go push the hippo into the water :(.
hexilokoownszu 2 years ago
aww. poor thing. it just wanted some comfort.
cranberry1lover 2 years ago 4
Sometimes you gotta stop nature from taking its course and give the baby hippo a second chance in life. Humans give compassion.
OS253 2 years ago 2
at first i thought the same, why don't we save them? we're part of nature too, an if we saved them then so be it , that the course that nature took, because we're part of it. But after she said that the baby hippo might have been sick and they kicked him out, then i changed my mind. They are right in that case, because we don't know the nature of hippos, and maybe they don't want him, because it might get them sick. So just leave it up to raw nature, as opposed to human nature.
Omid45 2 years ago 2
That was actually touching.
needsbeer 2 years ago