Footage has emerged of a grieving giraffe cow defending its lifeless calf from eight hyenas.
The guts-wrenching sighting was captured by Susan Harwood on her current safari at Olifants River Recreation Reserve within the Limpopo province.
On her Fb put up, she defined that the prevalence lasted greater than three hours. The giraffe lastly relented resulting from fatigue and dehydration ensuing within the hyenas getting the carcass.
Though this can be a uncommon prevalence, In 2012, zoologists in Zambia watched a mom giraffe spend two hours licking and nudging her lifeless new child.
There was an ongoing debate on whether or not giraffes mourn their lifeless and scientists imagine these sightings could serve to show that they do.
The reason for the calf’s dying remains to be unknown.
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Image: Susan Harwood
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