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I have watched many documentaries on wild animals from wolves to deers. I truly believe they all have feelings for their family, pack, and to those humans that raised them or became accepted into their family.
So with that said, if wild animals can love humans. I am positive pets such as dogs and cat love their human parents since they have been domesticated for thousands of years.
Certainly more so than wild animals do. There have been cases where wild bears for instance were very fond of the humans they had known for a long time, but one day all of a sudden they attacked and killed those people one might have assumed they liked. One just can't trust wild animals, at best they are like Jekyll and Hyde.
This little guy is a baby monkey who do best with his mom(I don't know what happened to her), but he feels something for his human papa. It's amazing how he also cuddles with a cat (11:14):
I recall seeing a program or documentary on tv (just caught a bit of it as I was channel-surfing) and one thing they showed just broke my heart. It was a group of monkeys in the wild, they were under threat from some sort of predator - can't recall now what it was. But one of the monkeys, a female, had a baby that had died. She laid the baby on the ground and kept poking it, pleading for it to get up. The rest of the group waited for her at first, but as the danger got closer they finally fled, while was still desperately trying to urge her baby to get up. She kept looking from her group that was leaving, to the baby, back to the group again...until she at last gave up and ran to them. But the desperation and anguish on her face was absolutely undeniable.
Do wild animals that live in packs feel love for their pack mates?
Do the mothers feel love for their children, and then feel extreme sadness when one of the young die? What is the motivated factors that makes mother mammals raise their young for a bit?
It's quite obvious to me that the answer is YES. Most people do not think deeply enough to make that distinction.
When you're in a position of dependency, it's hard to judge if they're truly loving you back. Like a wife completely dependent on a husband, and when they say I love you? A child dependent on Mommy and Daddy, do you really think you'd hear I hate you!
I question that all the time with my pet ferret, is it truly love or love dependency.
As for other animals loving one another, I do believe it's possible.
Agree that animals love one another. I adopted two guinea pig brothers at three weeks of age. I only adopted one at first. I brought him home and he cried the entire time and would NOT stop crying all night. He finally calmed down some when I gave him a small stuffed bear to cuddle, but I could tell he was still distraught. The crying was soooo sad. I decided to go back and adopt one of his brothers a couple days later. He was so happy! He was literally squeaking for joy. They are now inseparable. They lick each other, play together, and cry if one is removed from the cage. They also have a blanket to hide under and the one pig will jump up and run over to the other one acting very concerned if he hears his brother making noise under the blanket. I have been around many small mammals in my life, but I have never seen brotherly love quite like this.
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