MATERNAL LOVE ...........IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND COMMON TO ALL CREATURES.


A mother is unique. There is none equivalent to her in this world.She is an epitome of unlimited,selfless love,sacrifice and is a pillar of strength to her family. 

   Mother is someone who carries her baby in her womb for ten months, and gives birth to the baby suffering a huge amount of pain, sometimes has surgery to deliver the baby by cutting open her abdomen.And many a time she sacrifices her life in the process of childbirth.And all this, so she can her bring the baby into the beautiful world. 
MOTHERLY LOVE
 Many people have heard about the "Tajmahal" one of the seven wonders of the world.But how many people know that this was built as a mausoleum for the famous Mumtaj Mahal who died giving birth to her fourteenth child? How pathetic and heart rending is her story. It is the story of a distressed mother and not the story of divine love as we all know. And  her husband Shahjahan married again after six months!
TAJMAHAL
SHAHJAHAN
Maternal love is beautiful and is common to all creatures.Right from man to elephants,  dogs,cats,monkeys,guerrillas,bears,otters, and a great list goes on and on. A mother is like a beautiful goddess. She gives birth to the child, nurses the baby and feeds it when it gets older. The mother is the first teacher of her child and teaches it how to see the world and live in it.She suffers herself when her child gets hurt or falls ill and nurses her baby back to health. 

 This applies to human mothers, but a great part of it applies to other animals as well.Even to the tiny creatures like fruit eating bats.
FRUIT BAT WITH BABY


The above picture was taken some months back when it was breeding time and there was not sufficient light in the deep reaches of the date palm tree. I will write about these tiny fruit eating creatures about the size of a small lemon in my next article. Sometime back I had written two blogs about bats and these fruit eating bats.Note the babies hidden in their mama's wings and a newborn baby in the wing of a bat mama.
 Here is another video about maternal and paternal instinct in these tiny bats! Really I have been observing and photographing these bats and larger Indian flying foxes. Their lives are so similar to those of us human beings.Very interesting.
And now we will see some pictures of baby elephants and maternal love in elephants.
A VERY CUTE BABY ELEPHANT.
MOTHERLY LOVE

SUCH BEAUTIFUL LOVE

ANOTHER CUTE ELEPHANT  BABY

A NURSING BABY ELEPHANT
Shall we some motherly love in other creatures as well? A Polar bear with her baby.
POLAR BEAR BABY HUGGING MAMA

POLAR BEAR WITH HER BABY
BABY HITCHING A RIDE ON MAMA POLAR BEAR
 And common bears also show maternal affection and teach their babies about the ways of life!

MAMA BEAR TEACHING BABY TO BATHE!

BABY WITH MAMA BEAR-MAMA GIVE ME A KISS
RIDING ON MAMA

 A horse with it's baby -a pleasure to watch.This baby is going to grow into a sturdy ,beautiful horse.
BABY HORSE NUDGING MAMA HORSE TO GET UP AND PLAY.
HORSE LOVING HER BABY
Can you imagine tortoises with babies, and what a lovely bondage between mama and babies.
BABY TURTLES RIDING ON MAMA TURTLE.


HOW SWEET LIKE MAMA LIKE BABY

And let us see some wild animal mamas with their cute babies. They maybe predators, but the babies are sweet and the mamas love their babies.That is what maternal love is all about.
LION MAMA WITH HER BABY.
LION CARRYING HER BABY
PROUD LION MAMA WITH HER BABY
And even a big bad wolf has deep motherly affection to her baby. A wolf baby with it's mama. A pleasure to watch.

A WOLF BABY KISSING HIS MAMA
What about Otters,Penguins, and owls? They love their babies too. This is what maternal instinct is all about.
MAMA PENGUIN LOVING BABY PENGUIN
MAMA OWL PROTECTING HER BABIES.
A SEA OTTER WITH IT'S BABY

 And now about domestic animals and pets,The common cats,dogs, Pigs, cows and Buffalo.
MAMA PIG WITH BABY PIG
NEWBORN BABIES FEEDING FROM MAMA PIG


A CUTE NEWBORN BABY PIG.
NEWBORN BABY PIG WITH IT'S MAMA

Now about Buffalo and cows, they really do have a strong maternal instinct.It is so obvious when watching them.
BUFFALO WITH HER BABY
BABY CALF NURSING FROM MAMA COW.
A deer is so beautiful and the baby must also be beautiful.Some pictures of deer with baby.
DEER NURSING BABY
We do not think about the common donkey, do we? But the donkey baby is cute and the donkey mama adores her baby too.


DONKEY MAMA ADORING BABY DONKEY

 About cats and dogs we see so many cute pictures of maternal love.Nice to the kitten and puppies adoring their mamas.
A CAT HUGGING IT'S NEWBORN KITTEN.
NURSING PUPPIES
PUG DOG WITH PUPPIES.


PROUD MAMAS
We will see such maternal instinct in giraffes, Koala bears,sheep and goats too.And in monkeys and guerrillas too to a great extent since monkeys and Guerrillas are our ancestors!!!
SHEEP LOVING HER BABY
PREGNANT MAMA GIRAFFE WITH BABY GIRAFFE
MAMA KOALA BEAR WITH BABY

MAMA GUERRILLA HUGGING HER BABY

BABY MONKEY KISSING MAMA MONKEY


MAMA MONKEYS WITH THEIR BABIES.
Oh how can we forget the cuddly Panda and babies. They are so cuddly and cute.

MAMA PANDA KISSING HER BABY.

 And now I will upload videos of a newborn goat struggling to get at the milk of it's mama.The new born baby goat with the umbilical cord dangling and with unsure steps,falling again and again finally succeeds to get at it's mama's milk.
And nowadays due to animal care centres everywhere, and loving homes, orphaned animal babies are looked after by goats,dogs etc. Now that is a beautiful relationship.
ORPHANED BABY PIG WITH GOAT MOTHER
The orphaned baby pig actually thinks that the goat is it's mama! What a sweet scene.


And dogs taking care of orphaned bunnies.Really beautiful. The modern animal shelters rescue and look after these lovely animals and they train cats, goats etc. to take care of the babies.The earth is a beautiful place where the orphaned animals are rescued and after resuscitation and recovery, are sent to permanent foster homes or are released in to the wilds.

 And a final tragic picture about maternal love.An injured and dying monkey feeds her baby lovingly.The scene is heart rending and very sad.It brings tears to the eyes and makes us very sad.

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Well......Such is maternal love whether it is in animals or humans. A mother is indeed unique. No one can equal her love for her offspring.





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