The most important moment of an animal’s life is its birth. The newborn emerges from dark safety to find anxious parents clucking or mewing. The first hours are some of the most dangerous. This film follows the birth and first days of several species, from marmoset to moose to elephant and gorilla. It is a film of miniature drama and huge spectacle, and comes to some surprising conclusions about human beings.
Orangutan mother and baby
Mothering involves instinct, but also experience and choices, some of which can be devastatingly hard. As viewers observe animals interacting with their young and wrestling with the feelings and dilemmas that come with raising a baby, they see that parental instincts, for creatures great and small, may mirror their own experiences.
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