Maybe you’re raising your eyebrows right now or maybe you’re thinking that it is weird that do
animals really fall in love.
Well not with just there own kind but also in other species. But the weirdest thing is an otter felt the same kind of love a human. Want to know about it don’t you? Ill tell you about it later lets just go back to our topic first. We humans feel different kind of love, we believe that we know what love is, and esteem it highly. Don’t we know that
animals also feel love from parental love to true love. Yes you read it right animals do fall in love. Well these tales I will tell you will surely change your minds and ideas after reading. Let’s start on a motherly love for her child. No not us humans but ma shwe, a work
elephant and her three month old calf. One evening ma shwe and her calf were trapped in rising flood waters of Myanmar. The elephant handlers could do nothing to help, for the banks were 12 to 15 feet high. Though ma shwe’s feet were still in the bottom, her calf was floating. She tried to use her trunk to held the baby against her body, but the fast rising water washed away the calf away. She plunged 50 yards downstream to retrieve it. She pinned the calf against the bank with her head, lifted it in her trunk reared up on her hind legs and placed it on a rocky ledge five feet above the water. Half an hour later, Williams the British manager of the elephant camp was peering down at the calf wondering how to rescue it. When he heard the grandest sounds of a mother’s love he can remember. Ma shwe had crossed the river and got up the bank and was making her way back as fast as she could, calling the whole time a defendant roar, to her calf it was like music. Its two tiny ears were cocked forward listening to only sounds that mattered, the call of her mother. When ma shwe and her calf safe on the other side of the river, her call was changed to the rumble when elephants typically make when pleased. Williams would probably have described the BOND BETWEEN rather than the LOVE BETWEEN ma shwe and her calf. Another observer of the animal community writes; it is important to remember that animals are not displaying TRUE LOVE but simply following the dictates of their genes. Is it as simple as all that? What about the animals stay together until one dies? Evolutionary biologist often say pairing is a way to ensure adequate parental care, but its not always clear this is the case. Some animals continue to accompany each other when not raising young. They commonly sleep together, groom each other and in some cases forage together. And they also appear to exhibit sorrow or show a sense of loss when one of the pair dies. A typical example the behavior of the gander ado when his mate, Susanne Elizabeth, was killed by a fox. He stood silently by her partly eaten body which just lay across their nest. The following day he hunched his body and hung hid head, his eyes became sunken because he did not have the heart to defend himself from the attacks of the other geese, his status in the flock plummeted. A year went by ado finally pulled himself together and found another mate. Animals may fall in love dramatically. The two gray lag geese are most apt to fall in love when they have known each other from the start and been separated and meet again. We can compare this to a man who meets a woman. That she is the same girl he used to see running around in a school uniform. He falls in love and marries her. According to a parrot behavior consultant it is common for some large species of parrots to fall in love