Greatest home video EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on: August 8, 2007 - 7:59pm
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Greatest home video EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is hands down the coolest most unexpected thing I have ever seen! Starts out slow but watch the whole 8 minutes. If you have already seen it PLEASE don't spoil it for the next viewer. Just say cool and then move on. Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
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Cool :D Seen it before, but very interesting.
This was cool! Thanks for posting it. Nature is...amazing!
Although I understand that's how things work in the real world, I found it very hard to watch. It was like watching a train wreck - you don't want to look, but you can't help yourself.
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Way cool.
Currently listed on page 3 of Youtube's "most viewed of all time"
between one called "humor" which starts off as a baby humping a doll, and one called "me singing 'what goes around' Justin Timberlake"
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Wow, that's pretty amazing.
Holy crap. It was like being at my sister's wedding again. My family, small in number but of higher intelligence, overrun by his family, enormous oafs who graze for hours.
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One helluva a rodeo.
[edited to prevent spoilers]
On edit: Whoops! I didn't know this had already been posted. Here it is, embedded:
Agreed! I'm a connoisseur of nature documentaries and this is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
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Yeah, it can be disturbing, but I think it's important for people to understand nature as it is. During the Romantic Era, nature was "romanticized." In modern society people have cut themselves off from nature to the point that they don't have a clue. On one side you get people who romanticize nature and on the other, folks who vilify it. The truth is that nature is beauty and brutality in equal measure.
On a whale watching trip I once witnessed an orca take a juvenile sea lion. It's what transient orcas do. A little boy who was standing right in front of me was a little shaken up. I would have been, too, at his age and gave him some comforting words. The orca, after all, has to eat four juvenile sea lions a day in order to survive.
Viewing nature was one of the many things that led me to conclude there was no benevolent god in control (and no, that stupid story about nature "falling" because Adam and Eve ate a piece of fruit doesn't cut it).
***Spoiler Alert***Don't scroll down if you haven't seen the video***
At the same time, you can see altruism in the buffalo herd. They will risk their lives to save not only calves, but any herd member. On the other hoof, they hate lions so much, they'll go out of their way to trample and gore lion cubs. I can't say I blame them considering what happens if they let the cubs grow up.
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By the way, did anybody notice the obvious natural morality taking place there? Not only did the buffalo cooperate to protect the calf, but the lions also cooperated very well to both hunt the buffalo and to thwart the crocodile.
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Yes, I commented on it above...at least on the buffalo. It's very interesting that both brutality and morality (both very natural) are on display.
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