What's the MATTER with me? (crying for bees and hippos)

[laurajetter]

I was just watching National Geographic's Most Amazing Moments and they were doing a countdown on unusual predators or something like that. I only saw the last few in the countdown, but one made me get teary eyed and the other made me cry.

The teary eyed one took place in Japan and was about a swarm of 30 giant hornets that raided a honeybee hive of 30,000 bees, killing everysingle one of them. I just felt so sorry for the honeybees, they were doing their best to protect the hive and the hornets, who were about 20x their size, were relentless and just tore through (literally) any bees in their way.

Then, the last one made me cry a little. A mother hippo just gave birth to the cutest little hippo baby. Not long after birth, the hippo must've swam too close to a male hippo, following him a little bit. The male didn't like his space being intruded upon and he went after the mother.

The mother swam as fast as she could, with her baby at her heels. She did the best she could to protect him. Then, to teach the other hippos a lesson not to bother him, and to prevent the baby from becoming a threat in the future, he chased him down, chomped on him and shook him until he died.

The mother tried to revive her baby's lifeless body at the bottom of the pond, to no avail.

I know this is nature, and these things happen. Why did watching these affect me so much? Is it because I'm a new mom? Maybe, but come on, these are honeybees and hippos for goodness sake! Something's the matter with me.

Laura

 

[mickeyboat]

Becoming a mother changes you forever.

Denae

 

[Zandy595]

I know just how you feel. I was watching 'Growing Up Snow Leopards' (or something like that) this morning and got teary eyed when the baby leopards had to leave their caregiver and move to the zoo. I would have been a total mess if I'd seen the baby hippo die.

 

[Aurora63]

I get emotional for shows like this too. There was one once where killer whales came up on the beach to snatch unsuspecting baby seals that were playing...the moms, after the attack, kept looking out to sea and barking this really sad, mournful sound. I cried after that one. You're not alone.

 

[MrsJackSparrow]

Could you possibly be pregnant again? I watched Titanic when pg with #2 and completely freaked out about halfway through the movie . . . "They're all gonna die and they are still eating dessert! Why don't they go to the lifeboats?"
I also freaked out at the opening scenes of Pocahontas, "We stole the land from the Native Americans! We gave them all small pox!" Never cried with #1 about anything but freaked often with #2, early on, too!

 

[andromedaslove]

I know exactly what show that hippo thing came from. The show that the took the clip from is called "Haunt of the Hippo" or something similar. My husband and I watched that, and it was sooo cool until that point. My DH and I both cried, and he told me that if I ever put that show on again that he would shoot the TV. Take into consideration that we had just lost a little boy, but we WILL not watch it again. That was one of the most horrific things I have ever seen.

Dana