Every life begins with a baby. There is a whole new world to explore, a whole new life to strive for, a whole new dream to be realized, and for a life that still has hope, it is happiness.
Written | Ling
Edited | Fresh
Proofreading | Xu Jing
Produced | Figure Documentary
Why do we always exclaim "so cute" at this kind of face? Round head, brain doors that take up half of the face area, dripping eyes with small stars... Each trait grows on the protective desire of adults.
Yes, the principle of "baby schema" still applies to baby animals!
Imagine Kaya, a four-month-old puma cub, staggering "the first step in this vast new world." It was so insecure, the brother rolled on the mother, it just watched from the sidelines, until it was confirmed that it was safe;
There is also the whole process of the emperor penguin Pico being born from his father's feet: it pecked through the eggshell, probing the small brain shell in the Antarctic storm, and quickly retracting under the father's rich feathers...
Documentaries about wild cubs are filmed, which are released every few years. "Growing up wild" and "Animal Babies: First Year on Earth" are both based on the theme of showing the survival of animal cubs.
Netflix's newly launched "Wild Babies" can outperform because it is a children's drama in the documentary, which does not offend any group, and people and animals are harmless, sweet and cute. It's the kind of popular science documentary that every parent can watch with their children without worrying about not being able to answer tough questions – it doesn't even criticize the impact of humans on the natural world!
"Our Great National Park" could anger Obama's opposition, "Blue Planet" could weigh heavily on non-environmentalists, and "Baby Wildlife" — seriously, who could be offended by a faltering, big-eyed, cute baby?
Social fear will not survive
In order to narrate this "children's drama", even the "Queen of Hearts" Helena Bonham Carter did not continue the charm of her film characters, but unfolded a long scroll of nature in a soft and mellow style.
"Baby Wildlife" features 17 animal cubs from 16 countries and regions, including South Africa, Costa Rica and South Carolina, including lions, wild dogs, sea otters, orangutans, elephants, etc. Once you know that "more than half of the animal cubs do not live to live the first year of their birth", you will realize what these shots have witnessed: ignorant cubs, starting their journey of life in the wilderness, actively surviving, learning to hunt... Until you grow up, you can start your own family and live on.
For the cubs that live in the wild, uniting the collective is the first lesson of life.
Even at the top of the food chain, young mountain lions face no less difficulty than other babies. Kaya, the lioness, and her three brothers all live with their single mother. Not far from them, the powerful Mara Mara lion herd of influence means that Kaya's mother's hunting space is very limited, and correspondingly, the attention and milk allocated to each baby are limited.
Breastfeeding is not a treat to dinner, and Kaya, always more restrained than her brothers, eats a slow beat when feeding, and does not dare to learn hunting skills in the fight, which means that it grows slower than its compatriots and has a lower chance of survival. When encountering an adult male leopard, his brothers scatter and flee for their lives, and only Kaya is lost and must learn to survive alone on the grassland after dark, and it takes two more days to return to his mother.
In the end, single mothers chose to compromise. It wants to win back the hearts of the children's fathers and take the children back to the lions. The brothers jumped up to get close to their father, whom they had never met, while Kaya watched cautiously until it was also approved by her father: the licking of love.
Collectively, the shy girl found herself safe and threw herself into the practice of fighting and hunting with the other cubs—it seemed to have finally determined its place.
Powerful puma pups can spend more time overcoming social fears, but not so much time for baby animals at the sub-level of the food chain.
Adapting to the socialization of the group is especially important for the baby sea lion Tubu living in the group.
Tabu's mother gently touched it with her nose and "told" it to stay where it was and not to move, to buy an orange herself... No, go to the sea to hunt and come back. With no food, no friends, no mother, the little sea lion's eyes were as dazed as human cubs, and they could only squirm on the beach.
At this time, a female brown hyena was attracted by the smell of the cubs. Realizing that the enemy's mouth had bitten him, Tabu could only cry out in despair. Although it is in a herd of sea lions, the other lions stand idly by. Fortunately, mom arrived in time, "mom is its whole world."
But as Tabu grows older, moms spend more time looking for more food, and their best bet is to join the Independent Cub Survival Club. By putting the other person's tail in his mouth and chewing, Tabu has a new little friend. But when the black-backed fox approached, the little friends scattered, and the tabu who fell at the end could only fight alone, this time, it learned to scare away the enemy with writhing and roaring, and returned to the sea lion group, "taking the first step of independence".
"If you want to get what you need, sometimes you have to go out."
The survival tips of the badger: born by parents, growing up by mentors. The immediate priority of each cub is to find a one-on-one mentor for himself, but the little monkey Kido has never had a mentor willing to accept. It plucked up the courage to approach its eldest brother, Kubuya, while adolescent males were not interested in having children.
Until it was almost attacked by the eagle, it let out a desperate cry, and his brother Kubuya could not look at it, and ventured out to grab the back of its neck and reached safety. This adventure also gave Quito the special relationship he had always longed for, and one of the best mentors.
The older brother Kubuya went from disgust to reluctance to ignore the little brother, Zhen Xiang
How serious are the consequences of not learning?
Learning and exploring is the second lesson for newborns to survive and survive well in a harsh natural environment.
The little elephant Jasiri's homework is to learn trust and judgment. Its mother was not sure whether to cross the river with the herd or stay on this side of the river with her children, because the young elephants could easily get lost in the current. The mother finally decided to cross the river with the current. It was very cautious, using its nose to test the speed of the flow of water and the firmness of the sand, but Jasiri was still entangled in the current—the mother only had a few seconds to grasp it with her nose, and not far away, the crocodile was descending the river, fortunately, the spirit of mutual help of the elephant family was strong enough to form an elephant wall to block the flow of water.
The little elephant Jia Xirui finally successfully landed, and the difficulty was no lower than that of the examination and the examination. "In its life, there are many rivers to cross, but this is the first time it will never be forgotten."
The cuteness of "Baby Wild Animals" is that it presents the different choices of different cubs in the same predicament, showing their rich emotional and personality differences.
Like The Arctic Fox Shiv and the little lioness Kaya, it is difficult to grab food from the three lively brothers. But unlike Kaya, Shiv is very good at finding a way for herself.
Without meat to eat, it filled its stomach with wild fruit raspberries, and at the same time looked around and listened to all directions, observing that Dad was trying to catch birds in the water. Shiv waited quietly on the shore and ate the first hot bite. When the other brothers also smelled the wind, they had learned to swim like their father, successfully hunted their first prey on the other side, and together with their father, circled a bird hunting ground for the family, which changed the fate of the entire family, and inevitably changed the fate of Shif. "It proves that she is an unusual sister."
If there are excellent students, there must be backward students.
Chico the Little Capuchin Monkey was born into a more severe extended family. The family of 30 monkeys is not as friendly to young people as the elephant family, and no monkey will share food and teach it how to find food. Chico used the last trick: go down the tree and pick up leftovers from other monkeys. This attracted the covetousness of the snake, and the monkey family finally panicked, shouting together in an attempt to drive away predators. Without the monkey noticing, Chico jumped up to the branches full of plump fruit... Crickets on.
Although young, it has proven itself to have a competitive mind and ability to master the strategies of survival in large families.
Observing how animals behave as responsible and at the same time not too nervous parents is enough for human parents to observe themselves.
The Emperor Penguin family is a family of three, and parents share the parenting together – yes, this is one of the few "unbioned parenting" in this film!
The emperor penguin cub Pico was hatched from his feet by his father, clipped under his crotch, and slowly survived the blizzard, and when his mother returned from hunting, the two penguins moved like dancing, handing Pico from this pair of feet to the other, and then replaced by dad to join the social animal hunting team to find food for the family.
When Pico was older, he was sent by his mother to the coldest boarding school in the world, where he warmed up with a group of cubs, waiting for his parents to return, and crossed his neck in a loving shape to celebrate the child's survival to spring.
In our human society, if children do not obey and do not learn well, the consequences may include from being deprived of ice cream and writing double homework to being beaten and replaced by nature, and the consequences will be much more serious, because everything in the vast world can become a threat. Each young being in Wild Baby must master new skills in a short period of time, so that they are fully prepared for the test that is bound to come.
What humans can do is help as many pups as possible to live a little easier: more effective habitat management, or as widespread education as possible about conservation.
Wild Babies' record of the birth, growth, and naming of each cub makes the documentary seem more personal. Editing and arranging long periods of boring material into stories with educational significance is even more human
Sexualization, which gives the film a "human gaze" perspective. But it is also warm, peaceful, and suitable for parent-child time.
It's true to emphasize the severity and urgency of human impact on the environment, but the danger is that repetition can make people numb to the problem or stop watching altogether. As Tania Esteban, a wildlife documentary filmmaker, puts it: "If my work inspires another person to be a more compassionate person, to care about our planet, and to be in awe of the beauty and wonders of the natural world, that really makes me very happy."
Conveying a large number of cute, charismatic, emotionally moving our cubs is also a rewarding attempt:
The reincarnation of life on earth, endlessly, is in itself the greatest miracle. No matter how many times you see it, you will still be moved.
Tonight, I don't care about the earth, I care about the furry.
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