Can animals establish a traumatic bond?

in #life11 months ago

Agriculturalist set up a surveillance camera in response to nightly dog disturbances and made a startling discovery. Each evening, a leopard would visit a cow, and the cow would affectionately nuzzle the big cat's head. Following a conversation with the previous custodian of the cow, the farmer uncovered that the leopard had been orphaned at a tender age of just twenty days.


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Consequently, the cow had nourished the leopard with her milk, leading the leopard to perceive the cow as its mother, prompting the nightly visits of familial connection.

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