Has any animal ever sacrificed its own life for another animal (including the human specie)?

Answer 1

Killer whales have been known to do this on many different occasions..A whale gets beached and cries for help and other whales beach themselves to help the stricken animal ,knowing that they are in grave danger also.. Many orcas die this way..Shame ppl werent as concerned about each other the way they are..

Answer 2

advantageous. attempt to be careful on your definition of genuine altruistic and self-sacrificing. genuine decision demands an entire wisdom and documents of the situation -- which by using maximum animals in all probability can not certainly do. in spite of the shown fact that, human beings are animals and there are easily situations of human beings being extremely altruistic. With different animals, you may on no account be advantageous if the animal extremely is conscious the situation and thinks approximately it. Does a dogs who races right into a burning development to keep a human newborn quite understand the negative aspects and that the newborn isn't regarding it -- or is it quite is ideas chemistry and shape such that its %. mentality is so sturdy it does not certainly comprehend that the newborn might desire to be secure interior the comparable way as a genuine %. member? There are lot of animals which sacrifice themselves for others -- birds that are tricked into looking after yet another birds youthful, cats which preserve ducks, or a police dogs who sniffs out bombs. you may not call those altruistic because it quite is unquestionably comprehend clean that the animal certainly is conscious their subject to a element at which you will say they could make a determination it quite is unquestionably self-sacrificing vs. in simple terms being blind to the determination, tricked, or basing it off thoughts or misapplied instincts.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure every species does it. It just depends on the reason. Some may do it for their babies, some because they'd rather fight to the death. And maybe even for praise? A human might to go to Heaven. Cuz, I believe that sacrificing your life is a noble deed. But doing it intentionally to get in Heaven wont work.

Answer 4

Saw a rare National Geographic video of a hippopotamus defending a caribou against a crocodile or alligator, not sure which it was. Very strange footage being that these two animals were strangers, and the hippo probably lived in this same water hole with the croc or gator. Maybe it had something against the croc or gator. Also I heard a story once from a friend of a family member. They said their friends house caught fire in the middle of the night. They were pulled out by fireman, and the dog ( a german shepard ) , came out carrying their 9-month old daughter in it's mouth.

Answer 5

Yes, there is a bird that calls the attention of attacking predators to protect the rest of the group, sometimes sacrificing it's own life. I'm sorry I don't know the name of the species, I saw this detail two days ago on a show called 'Futuro' on DocuTVE.

Answer 6

One day I was in this dépanneur, and here was this hold-up... the cashier was acting crazy didn't give the money. While he was yelling at the thief, I saw from the corner of my eye some sort of lizard entering the dépanneur. The thief lost his mind and was gonna shoot the cashier, but just before the lizard ran like hell, and actually jumped in front of the cashier. This was a kind of armored-belly lizard, so he didn't even die, the bullet went back into the thief's head. When the police arrived, I was still there because I definitely wanted those Tostitos. When I told the cops what happened, they didn't believe me, not even the cashier because he had no idea what just happened in front of his eyes, this guy though there was an angel-sniper guarding him. I spent two months in a psychiatric ward because of that.

Answer 7

Dogs do that all the time. Female animals do that all the time for their babies.

A few years ago I saw a momma quail followed by a marching line of about a dozen of her chicks. The last chick dropped into a depression made by a hoof-print and it started chirping in a panic.

The momma quail halted and all the chicks stopped in step. I was about to lean down to rescue the little chick when the mother quail challenged me. I politely retreated two steps and watched the momma quail gently sweep her chick out of the depression with her wing. Then she went to the lead and the procession of quail continued on.

Imagine the courage and love of that little bird to challenge a 5'-9" 200 lb. man with a rifle for her baby. We should learn from nature!

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Answer 8

Let me see here, there was Jesus, soldiers from the many wars past and present in this world, nurses, doctors, cats, they save there own skin every time they kill a bird, there are lots and lots of humans and animals that have and do sacrifice life on a daily basis for others.

Answer 9

Recently saw a documentary in Africa. A cheetah had her three cubs with her with a hungry lion approaching. She stood between the lion and her cubs, they ran off with mother standing her ground, luckily the lion chickened out and they all lived happily til tomorrow at least.

Answer 10

yes, there was a story on discover Chanel about a hen that was infertile and the farmer put anothers hens eggs in her next the hen hatched the eggs and while out with them one day a hawk fly down to attack her babies. she called them to her and in an open field she sat on top of them as the hawk swooped down.she lost some feathers but kept her babies and her life.