Sometimes nature sucks.

[lyonessnyc]

 I turned on a nature program on NatGeoWild for my grandmother because we both like nature programs, and this one was about lions and hyenas. It was all good for a while, and watching the lioness play with her cubs was just delightful. Hyena cubs are actually pretty cute too, even if they do grow up into horrid hyenas

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[meirwen]

Morguhn wouldn't watch that one, because he "knew" what would happen. He HATED hyenas.

[christianet]

Thom and I were watching a special in which a videographer went to remote island in the Indian Ocean where killer whales and elephant seals gather. During the time he was there, he witnessed what happened to one baby elephant seal when its mamma didn't return from getting food (because she had been eaten by a killer whale). None of the other mothers could adopt it, since they had just enough milk for their pups. It was so sad to see it laying there, looking thin and weak and desperate. The videographer said it was so hard to see this and not be able to do anything about it. I teared up.