This is a story of struggle of 2 mothers a a Gazelle mother trying to protect her new born and a Cheetah mother who was hungry from 2 days and had to feed her two 1 month old cubs which we witnessed live in #masaimarareserve in Aug 2020. On day 1 we saw Cheetah mom Kweli try to hunt but failed as she had to protect her cubs from 2 Jackals and a hyena. the next day she was very hungry and had to hunt. we reach at this place early morning ..there are many Gazelle and impalas coming close but escaping n not attacked by Kweli...we wonder why but wait. .. there are 2 if the Gazelles one female and one male ...very close to Kweli n they can all see each other but they all wait ...we wonder why ..the Gazelles do not move from there for hrs ...after a few hrs the make Gazelle slowly moves away then the female very hesitantly......
Now Kweli makes her move n hoes around scanning the place where the w Gazelle stood ..we still could not understand what was happening....she finally picks up a new born Gazelle which the parents had been trying to protect for hrs before giving up.
we thought Kweli would just kill n go n feed her cubs ....but but but ....that was not the case ..She played around with the scared Baby Gazelle tapping him n played some running n catching .......she also fell a couple of times in the game ....we wondered if Kweli had fallen in love with the baby n decided to adopt......the play continued for about 3p min then finally ....we guess the baby was tired n gave up as well after which Kweli brought the dead baby Gazelle for her hungry cubs and the family had a happy meal....
Each mother was trying to protect it's own babies ......Circle of life ...Rules of nature....foodchain .....one had to let go for the other
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