GRIZZLY BEAR SAVES DROWNING CROW AT THE BUDAPEST ZOO - The ungrateful crow bites her, but she walks away without harming him.



The savior with the ungrateful crow on the ground

I watched the video twice, and despite what the zookeepers say, it is a genuine rescue.  

The terrified crow acted instinctively and bit the bear.  But she did not hold this against him, and gently walked away to allow him to recover.  Her intentions were definitely noble. 

 

A bite by an exhausted crow would not have been a deterrent for this magnificent predator, had she really wanted to have him as a snack.

 

She was just being kind.  Why can't the zookeepers accept this fact? 

 

Maybe because scientists hate the idea of "anthropomorphising" animals, that is, accepting the fact that they have feelings as humans do.  Animals - particularly mammals like us -  feel love, joy, sorrow and loneliness.  They grow feelings of attachment for other animals and for friendly humans, and grieve when they lose their friends or their young ones.  Anyone who has interacted with cats and dogs knows that!
 

If scientists accepted these similarities, they would be unable to justify the horrendous way in which they treat animals in experimental labs.  So they continue to tell us that animals don't have feelings like ours.  To animal lab scientists, creatures are little more than 'things,' to be used, tortured, and then discarded.

 

And now, the story of this amazing rescue.

 

DAILY MAIL - A crow found an unlikely saviour in a grizzly bear, when it ended up in a pond in its enclosure.

 

The bird had managed to fall into the water and was drowning when the grizzly discovered its plight and pulled it to safety.  The unusual Baywatch scene was filmed by Aleksander Medves, a visitor at Budapest Zoo earlier this summer, and uploaded to YouTube.

 

In the short film, the bear is seen walking around near its pond, when it sees the flailing crow in the water.  The bear, a female named Vali, approaches the side of the pond, and after first attempting to pull it up with its paw, bites on to the crow’s wing and drags it out of the water.

The lucky crow

 

The terrified crow nabs Vali in the nose, and she immediately lets go of the wing, and retires to her apples and carrots.  The bird appears in shock, lying on its back for a few seconds while panting.  Soon it manages to flip itself over on its feet and appears to be staring at Vali in surprise that she ‘saved’ it. 

 

However, as noble as the act may appear on tape, Budapest Zoo commented on its website that the bird was lucky.   ‘The female brown bear was probably just curious.  ‘The bird is handled not too gently, and after pulling the shore, she lets immediately, because the crow had the presence of mind to give her a pinch on the nose.  ‘After this, she lost interest in the prey, and went to munch on the apples and other delicacies.’

 

See more pictures and video

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2713341/Saved-grisly-end-grizzly-Bear-pulls-drowning-crow-water-zoo-enclosure.html

 

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