{"id":2851,"date":"2013-10-21T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T10:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2013-12-04T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T16:14:47","slug":"a-mothers-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/a-mothers-love\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mothers Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Marley and Me last night (again), and unashamedly sobbed my heart out (again). Even my husband had a little tear in his eye.<\/p>\n<p>It got me thinking about just how strong the bond is between a pet and their owner, and then that led me onto how strong the bond is between a parent and a child.\u00a0 Even in the animal world, the bond is strong between a mother and their young.\u00a0 True, there are some animals who just abandon their young as soon as they are born, but these species are few and far between.<\/p>\n<p>We witnessed a great display of motherly love a few year ago whilst on safari in Sabi Sand, when a pride of 12\u00a0 lion took down a young buffalo, and the mother came back to defend it.\u00a0 Single handedly she fought the lions off her baby, and then when the rest of the herd saw that she was putting up such a fight, they all came back too.\u00a0 12 lion versus 150 buffalo &#8211; not surprisingly, the buffalo won the battle, and the lions were chased off into the bush to recover.\u00a0 And boy, did the 4 of us in our game vehicle cheer and clap when we saw the baby buffalo shakily get up and follow his mother closely as she led him away.\u00a0 Getting all misty eyed again now just remembering it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So just to round off this short blog, I did a quick trawl of some of my favourite images of mother\/young love.\u00a0 I hope you like them as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstimemaximum_15611225-masai-mara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2852\" alt=\"dreamstimemaximum_15611225 - masai mara\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstimemaximum_15611225-masai-mara-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstimemaximum_28076999-MASAI-MARA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2853\" alt=\"dreamstimemaximum_28076999 - MASAI MARA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstimemaximum_28076999-MASAI-MARA-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstime_xl_14434029-addo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2854\" alt=\"Baby African Elephant\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstime_xl_14434029-addo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstime_xl_32683173-general.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2855\" alt=\"dreamstime_xl_32683173 general\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstime_xl_32683173-general-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstimemaximum_17676521-GENERAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2856\" alt=\"dreamstimemaximum_17676521 GENERAL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstimemaximum_17676521-GENERAL-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstimemaximum_33960341-GENERAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2858\" alt=\"dreamstimemaximum_33960341 GENERAL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/dreamstimemaximum_33960341-GENERAL-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Marley and Me last night (again), and unashamedly sobbed my heart out (again). Even my husband had a little tear in his eye. It got me thinking about just how strong the bond is between a pet and their owner, and then that led me onto how strong the bond is between a [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/21\/a-mothers-love\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,283,1120,1118,169,249,1119],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-safari","tag-africa","tag-buffalo","tag-love","tag-mother","tag-sabi-sand","tag-safari","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelbutlers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}