Astonishing pictures from the World Wildlife Fund capture the moment that a terrified mother caught a rope thrown to her by humans and swam across a flooded river to bring her baby to safety. Villagers had reported that the mother and her baby were stranded in a tree when a river flooded on the north east tip of the island.
It is a long-held belief that the giant apes are petrified of water, but after the rope was caught, the mother did not appear to give her leap into the swollen river a second thought.
The bond between mother and child. It just makes the heart swell, doesn’t it?
it all comes down to the same basic insticts, doesn’t it?