Don't complain if you are pushed into action by those who love you...

The first thing to emerge at a baby giraffe's birth is its fromt hooves and head. Minutes later, the newborn is hurled from the mother's body, falls ten feet, and lands on its back. Within seconds, it rolls to an upright position with its leg tucked under its body. From this position, it views the world for the first time and shakes off any remaining birth fluid.


The mother giraffe then lowers her head just long enough to take a quick look at her calf, then she does what seems to be a very unreasonable thing: she kicks her baby, sending it sprawling head over heels. If it doesn't get up, she kicks again and again until the calf finally stands on its wobble legs. Then what does the mother giraffe to? She kicks it off its feet! Why? She wants it to remember how it got up.


In the wild, baby giraffe must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with the herd and avoid becoming meals for lions, hyenas, leopards and wild hunting dogs. The best that the mother giraffe can do to ensure that her calf lives, is for her to teach it to "get up quickly and get it over and done with".


So once again, don't complain if you are poushed into action by those who love you. They are doing you a favour! =D

the waterfall neva stops --- we should never stop movin on too
at 9:05 AM

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