Last night, SO put on these two wildlife documentaries.
One was about a sea otter and her pup who lived in a harbour in Monterey, CA. It followed the mom and the pup while she reared it. It was such a lovely documentary and so so so cute. Until this horrible male sea otter who patrols the harbour tried to mate with the mom sea otter. He's known for being viscious when he tries to mate with a female and he bites on their nose and sometimes does a lot of damage to their nose area. The mom otter was found barely alive (she was trying to protect her pup from him and he attacked her) and they had to take her away and nurse her back to health for six weeks. They didn't find the pup for a good while later, but the pup was ok. Then after they put the mom otter back into the harbour, another male otter snuck into the harbour unknown to the horrible male. He was all nice to the mom otter and they mated, and that's where it ended. But it was really sad!
Anyway ... then SO puts on another documentary about elephants in Kenya. It was a documentary following rangers in the Samburu reserve. Apparantly elephants are very like humans because of their emotions - they experience anger, loss, etc. They said they actually mourn the death of someone in the elephant family. The rangers came across an elephant dead on a part of a stream that had all dried up and it was a mommy elephant :cry: They showed her two calves going up to her and gentle touching her and not understanding why she wouldn't get up. OMG it was the saddest thing I've seen on tv. I started bawling. Poor SO was like "but this is nature, it's what happens" and I was bawling like a baby "but the poor baby elephants don't understand why their mommy isn't getting up!!!"
OMG it was horrible. They just kept standing there, and then the rest of the family showed up and all the elephants surrounded the dead mom elephant - you could really see that they were actually mourning the loss. Then they all left and one stayed behind and started gently touching the elephant with their trunk and sniffing - apparantly that's a thing that they do quite often to a member of a family that has died, something to do with emotions, I'm not sure.
And then they showed another mother and her calf, and the calf injured his leg so had to hobble along really slow. As a result of going so slow, they got separated from their family and had to travel alone. Then the mother would call out for the family and nobody came. Finally they caught up with another family though.
OMG it was so sad though. I was a bawling bumbling mess. I was crying for about 5 mins!!! Elephants are my favourite animal of all so I guess that's what made it so upsetting for me. But it was so sad.
He's got another documentary now for us to watch on a polar bear with her two cubs. I told him there better be no polar bears getting hurt or worse in this because I just could not handle it after the poor sea otter got hurt and then the elephant!
Changing the color? I used some root lifter the hairdresser suggested and I can now get my hair that high! I kid you not and it stays. Good stuff, if you like that sort of thing. I'll bet the back is a big empty bald spot.
