I'd also like to add that I am incredibly appreciative of how long this video is. The one that led me here was a chopped up mess and all I could keep thinking was "need ALLLLL the footage" so this is really satisfying. Thank you
That was great. And fantastic that you didn't talk over it; it was beautiful all by itself, just the sound of the wind and the quiet of the desert and the animal world. I just hope the baby is old enough to survive without milk.
Awwww....very beautiful video and story, I am glad the baby zebra will be okay. Love happy endings and this one is indeed very nice and happy. Love the zebras they are very beautiful creatures. 👏👏👏👍👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
That WAS his family, the camping humans caused disruptions in the zebras routine, the baby was somehow 'lost' but his family cautiously came back for him... they couldn't even drink water cos the campers were at the water hole 😞 disgusting humans and their holier than thou attitude
As I go through life I have realized we have choices. I have been watching videos recently of animals in the wild (mostly lion prides), and when I saw this baby zebra I thought: "oh, no he is going to be lion's dinner!" But as I watched more, knowing how male's are in the wild, I CHOOSE to believe the little zebra went on to have a great life!! Since we do not know for sure, I like the positive rather than the negative!
It's easier to care for animals because it is a much smaller investment. Shame on us for hating ourselves and resenting the sacrifice required to invest in the future of our species.
I am with you Errol on this one..how about doing really something concrete for them..in what ever way can do..if you have any ideas..I am willing to volunteer
Fortunately the baby Zebra has still energy to keep up the herd.. Yeah I too hope good luck on the baby zebra..The God please.. Some milk to the baby zebra...
Oh my, Thank you so very much for sharing this precious video. At the beginning, I was worried for the baby. I thought when when the baby zebra was laying on the ground, he/she had given up to live. I hope the little one is ok and living with a herd.
This was excellent and I would give this a 5 STAR rating. Without a narrator OR as you did with close caption you are left to figure out exactly what it is you are looking for. I know how much work it took to make this happen. You took some time to find out some of the history involved.
Errol Neptune your on my wave length, I've always cared more about animals than humans, always will, humans can be very cruel, when I see an animal hurt or being mistreated it rips my heart out, I was choked up watching this in case the herd rejected him, so pleased it was a happy ending
I used to love going to a zoo, like the San Diego & Milwaukee zoos. I felt they were nice zoos but after seeing what the animals go through, I believe no animal should be caged. They should be left to run free where they came from. I will never go to another zoo. One of the best movies I have ever seen was Born Free where they fought for the animals to be free.
Not all zebras won't accept other babies that is not theirs. This group of zebras shows their caring for the little poor zebra and welcoming him to their herd. They are so nice and compassionate. I just hope they will lead the baby zebra to meet its new mother and provide it's need for milk.
Wow! zebras adopting an orphan is extremely rare..a fimilys stallion is much more likely to kill any offspring his mares produce that is not his!! Any follow up on how this furned out???
The little zebra can't keep up with the group, he's tired and hungry, he will be left behind and will not survive alone. Hyenas, Lions, Wild dogs are all hunting for easy preys like that...So sad.
Don't worry the baby survived and living a happy and healthy life .because ..when animals give a word I will take care of you and welcome someone in their family ..they keep their word and do not back track.....betraying and going back on a promise it's a human invention...animals are good.
Fawn stop living in a fantasy world. You don’t need to call someone an idiot when they’re just stating one possible scenario. They may have been females but none were nursing so had no milk as that was the first thing this foal looked for. So the chances are the goal did die.
Those desert zebra are peculiar in their habits, among the plains bands or herds, different environmental pressures create different responses. These do not migrate to areas of plenty like the herdsmen-familiar plains kind but rather endure the hardship year around in this region. The mares band together traveling about freely with young attached while the stallions are solitary staking out territories for breeding rights, according to dominant stature. This tactic speculatively developed to keep down stallion lethal aggression because in such a sparse place, wgere hostile an arid area, such a scarcity line walked of survival nature cannot spare the young to frivolous displays of dominance competing stallions. Every life is precious contribution to the continuance of species here in an unforgiving land. Not inordinarily an instate censure, rather a re-acurring theme found in nature whereas the females retreat a safe distance away from the aggression of male dominance due, separate to ensure survival of young. Foals even when strong tire easily compared to an adult hardily adapted. There also exist a chance reunited mother, if she's alive as female bands do cross each others paths occasionly, the mares are not territorial., whom the foal is searching for when walking away. Our little foal appears just on the border to eat enough on own to survive hopefully. There are predators about but because prey is scarce, so are they., preferring to distribute in places of abundance. A fifty-fifty odds being I hope in favor the little one's survival, as it appears spunkily determined enough under worst situation to befall a foal, bravely a born leader.
They adopted it because it is a very easy bait for lions or hyenas, if lions attack their group, this baby can easily grabbed by them and other older zebras can save their lives.
The baby's mom was probably with that herd and when she died he had no one to feed him so wandered off hoping to find his mom somewhere. I hope he found a substitute mom with milk out there, poor little guy.
This is very beautiful but I can’t help but wonder if a human wld have rescued him had he not been accepted into the group. We say we need to let nature take its course yet we don’t feel that way when it comes to our lives.
Finally someone who talk sense..... Human interfer with nature all the time at our advantage killing and destroying entere ecosystems and their animals/plants/insects but when they need to have compassion for a baby animal like this zebra everyone is so worried about not interfering with natura..... Please these people are absurd. Next time their mums had a cancer or some health problem let see what they think if the doctors will ask not to interfer with the nature and let their sickness kill them
Hate to say it but even under the rare condition a random group would let him in there’s almost no chance a mare is either lactating or able to share its milk. Probably why the baby walked away in the first place
Probably the calf was accepted because the herd was small ... in general foreign zebra chicks are not tolerated in the herd, but the herd being small wanted to grow
These are Mountain zebras. It is highly unusual for a group to accept another group's baby. It is hard to say whether this baby would live. It is very young.
Exactly! These campers disrupted the herd, by camping at their water hole! The family came back for the calf the very next day, this IS his family! They were not able to even drink water while these dumb people camped at their water spot. This is in the wilds of Namibia, not the usual South African videos where no animals are scared of the safari Jeeps...disgraceful behaviour by humans...as usual
Africa is hell for innocent herbivores animals but where this rogue lions, hyenas, and cheetah S come and attacks this poor zebras . So 6 + orphan zebra must be safe
The little Zebra was only weak as most likely it won't have been eating as usual due to the stress caused by losing his original herd & now its back with a herd it will soon regain his strength on a diet of sand, stones, more sand & bit of water.
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