He secretly followed his wife to the forest when he saw what she left there. He can’t stop crying. Predators at the top of the food chain don’t have to worry about being hunted or killed. But they don’t have to find food and that food might injure or kill them. Herbivorous prey animals often have an easier time finding food, but there’s always a risk of being killed by a predator.
As far as we know, most animals have limited capacity to think about the future or worry about things that might happen. They seem to live more in the moment, so that probably keeps them calm. But in the case of prey animals also vigilant. Having said all that, I’m not sure how well human ideas of calmness apply to animals. I mean, you would call an Etruscan Shrew calm.
Its heart beats 1500 times a minute and it has to eat twice its own body weight and prey each day. That does not seem like a recipe for calmness. Predator faces innumerable challenges. If a predator does not manage to capture prey, predator can literally starve to death. If a predator gets injured in the process of capturing prey, it can very frequently be a virtual death sentence.
Many predators also compete with other predators. This is best exemplified on the African Plains. For example, hyenas and Lions steal kills from each other all the time. A cheetah gets its kill stolen almost every time by all other big predators. Imagine putting all of that superlative sprinting effort and making a kill and then watch a lion steal your kill.
A lioness on the Hunt cannot be sure that its Cubs will be alive when it comes back from the hunt. A new lion could have taken over the pride in the meantime by killing the existing lion and the Cubs. In other words, if prey species are reduced to the point that they are hard to find or due to hunting pressure, they become so wary that they are hard to catch. Predators must move to an area that is under less hunting pressure or starved. Nature maintains a balance by weeding out the weak with predators as well as prey.
As for prey animals that are not dangerous to their predators, for the most part, they have a two part system. Early detection run like hell, thus increasing its chance of being eaten by a predator which is used at the next stage of the Parasite’s life and which puts eggs into the feces of that predator. Feces which are eaten by another fish or Ant. And the cycle goes on forever. Tigers are animals that people have always considered wild, and for most of them, living in jungles we see as ruthless and merciless.
But what we do not realize is that animals have feelings and memories too. Today I’ll be telling you a story about an incredible reaction of a wild Tiger after seeing a pregnant woman. Alba is a fashion designer and animal lover. She’s living in the middle of the bustling Moscow city with her husband. They got married three years ago, but until now, they’re still in the same stage of trying to have a child.
There are times that Alba gets tired and hopeless to even try. She feels like the universe does not even want them to have their own family that they have been dreaming of for three long years. Still, despite all the rejections to have a baby, Alba and her husband Alfred are still going to try until they receive that ultimate blessing. Alba grew up in the rain forests of Siberia, as her father is a zoologist there. She used to go with her father wherever he went on adventures in the Siberian forest to study animals.
Alba loved animals as much as she loved her business. She had always dreamt of becoming a zoologist when she was just a little girl, but then changed her mind when she went to College. She then wanted to help animals find their forever home. So that was the business that she built. She created a home for lost animals in the city or even beyond its outskirts and cared for them until they were ready to find their new homes.
But this is only one of her various activities. She also has her own line of pet foods and some accessories for different kinds of pets as well as this business is a huge deal in Moscow and she is earning more than what her family needs. So she thinks that the only missing piece in her life now is a baby. When Albert was young, she would play with the wild animals in the Siberian forest. There were Tigers, there sometimes were gorillas, wild monkeys, and many more life threatening animals that most of us wouldn’t even dare to come close to.
But Alba did not fear them because they were friends with her father. Therefore, they were friends with her too. It’s been a very long time ago since Alba last set foot in the Siberian forest. She was just seven years old when her mother and father separated. When that happened, her mother won custody over her and they both flew to Moscow City.
She has lived her whole life as a city girl ever since. At first, the adjustment was difficult for her. She was the jungle girl, more like the girl version of wild and adventurer girl, and then she was transferred to a concrete jungle. Everything was very different for her. Every once in a while, she missed her colorful and adventurous childhood in the forest while in the city.
The most adventurous things she had done yet was grabbing some liquor from the convenience store using a fake ID. Typical teenagers. She had always wanted to go back now somehow to visit her father. But since the day they left, her father had his new family there in Siberia. She had been busy with her studies and then her business.
Later on one night, she was praying before going to sleep. She remembered her beautiful childhood in the forest. She thought she wanted to go back before she and her husband had a child and at least relive her childhood one last time. She prayed to God that if he gave her a child, she will go back to her hometown one last time. The next morning after that, Alba wakes up to a churning feeling in her stomach.
She runs to the bathroom and she vomits for minutes. At first, she thinks she might be sick. So our first instinct is to go to the doctor. She asked her husband, Alfred, to drive her to the doctor, and when they get there, they received very surprising news. You’re not sick, Mrs.
Max. You’re just experiencing morning sickness. This is normal for any pregnant woman in the early stages of their pregnancy. The doctor says Alba and Alfred are shocked. Their eyes and mouths are wide open.
Seeing this, the doctor realizes that Alba doesn’t even know she’s pregnant. So he offers to give Alba an ultrasound. And there it is. The doctor here’s. The loud beating of a baby’s heart.
Alba is indeed pregnant. Alba and Alfred are so happy. The blessing they’ve been praying for 44 years has now finally come. So, of course, Alba and Alfred planned for the pregnancy very well. They don’t want to make any mistake on something that they waited on for so long before the couple leaves the hospital.
Alba remembers her prayers the other night. How she promised to God that she will go back to her hometown in Siberia. In addition, relive her childhood one last time. If she ever gets pregnant. Now that she already is, she’s now ready to finally go back to her hometown.
Alba tells this to Alfred. Her husband is thrilled. He grew up in a small town as well and never has gone any further than Moscow. He is so excited to visit his wife’s childhood memories as well. So they pack their things enclosed for the flight.
However, Alba’s doctor calls the couple just before they booked their flight and tells her to be extra careful because one day he decided to follow her early in the morning. And that’s what happened here. Her pregnancy is fragile and more sensitive than usual. Pregnancies. This breaks Alba’s heart, but she has no other choice but to stay at home and be healthy.
Eight months pass by when Alba has assured her doctor that her pregnancy is strong enough to travel to Siberia. She and her husband did not let go of the precious moment. They immediately booked a flight one month before her due date. On the day of her flight, Alba and Alfred are over the moon. They are very excited, and they can’t wait to see your hometown.
In the middle of the flight, the plane suddenly bumps into something. No one knows what it is, but the plane continues flying like normal. Then after a short while, the engine starts to break and the whole plane is about to fall to the ground. Alba is praying really hard with her husband to protect them and their baby. Whatever happens in less than five minutes, their freefall lands into a forest.
Good thing everybody is wearing their seatbelts. No one got seriously hurt. There are injured people but everyone is alive. However, their grave problem is that they are in the middle of a wild forest and there are no cell service and crowd of injured people altogether. In the middle of nowhere will surely attract wild predators any minute.
The passengers start to help each other while also keeping alert of wild animals roaming around. All of a sudden, a huge Tiger walks towards the people. The Tiger is growling loudly, almost ready to attack. People are panicking but then Alba stands up and tells them to calm down. The Tiger walks towards the people.
The Tiger is growling loudly, almost ready to attack. The people are panicking but then Alba stands up and tells them to calm down. The Tiger will not attack us if we are all just calm and acts like it isn’t here. Alba says that after this the people stayed quiet and did not move. When Alba sees the Tiger, she holds up both her hands and calmly sits down.