Nature Is Metal
Life Doesn’t Get a Vote Out Here 📽 by @zacoley Snapped in the Serengeti - a female wildebeest, mid-labor, stuck in a brutal mess. Something was wrong from the jump. No squirming, no kicks, nothing from the calf. Just a dead lump hanging there while she fought to shove it out, like nature had already clocked out on the deal. She was at it for hours. Up, down, dragging herself back to her feet, every muscle screaming to push out what wouldn’t budge. Normally, a calf twists and thrashes to help things along, but this one? Nothing. She was on her own, running on fumes, battling a ghost. No clue how it played out. Maybe that lifeless calf finally dropped, cold and still. Maybe she gave out first. Or maybe a lion, cheetah, or a gang of vultures swooped in to clean up the wreckage. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Nature Is Metal is powered by you! Did you record a wild video that you would like to get @ featured here? natureismetal.com/submissions is the absolute best place to send it. We personally check the submission page every day.
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Being surrounded by scary vehicles while giving birth must be wonderful
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Sad. She was probably drinking or smoking during her pregnancy. Smh
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No honestly, I get the „don’t intervene in wild life“ thing but here, a bunch of trucks clicking their cameras around while this mother is at the end of her power… is voyeuristic cruel shit. This time I really think someone should have helped.
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I think human should help in this situation
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Thats Jim Carrey
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8 days ago
Y’all are literally freaking this poor mother out! Leave her alone! And let her have her baby in peace!
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this page humbles me everyday
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That would’ve been extremely hard to witness and to not intervene 😢
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Damn, this is among the few cases where I will be that guy: Why did no one help 😭 Poor thing
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My 2 cents as a veterinarian neurologist: this animal is probably suffering from “calving paralysis” as well, when important nerves (sciatic and/or femoral) are damaged due to an intrapelvic trauma/prolonged pressure, in this case, due to a probable oversized/disproportional fetus. In the video, is clear to me that the sciatic nerve is the most affected, as cows with such lesion are not able to adduct the pelvic limbs and as a result, we see this split with the legs, not being able to stand up. This leads to more trauma to the adjacent structures. Prognosis is not so good, so either way, this animal is probably dead.
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Poor her😢❤️
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A pack of painted dogs would’ve helped removing that calf mad quick!
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yeah people recording are lost souls
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It’s horrible. But now a predator mom and her alive babies will win an easy meal. So the wheel turns. I feel for this mama. I do. Mine was stuck also. 27 hours and 6 hours of pushing. I feel this in my bones. Lucky to be human.
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It happens sometimes with our cattle , we try to help pull the baby out, sometimes it works, sometimes its impossible and does not and you just have to let it be, and the vultures and other wildlife take over
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