You often see cute, lovely videos of animals on the internet that will definitely put a smile on your face. One such video that has gone viral on the internet, shows a buffalo saving a tortoise is winning the internet.
The clip opens to show an enclosure where the buffalo is standing by a tree trying to push something. On a closer look it becomes clear that the animal is using its horn to flip an upside down tortoise. Though initially the bovine fails, it keeps on going till it succeeds.
The heartwarming video shows, a buffalo struggling to flip over a tortoise that has fallen on its back. The buffalo succeeds in saving the tortoise after persistent efforts.
Tortoises can die if they remain on their back for a long time as the position can dislocate and disrupt their vital organs, leave them immobile and also expose their soft underbelly to predators.
“Aww! That was the best wake up I’ve had in a while! Amazing how a ferocious beast can give a lending horn to such a small creature is totally beautiful and he did it gingerly!!” wrote an Instagram user. “Wow!! I am more surprised that the buffalo realizes that the turtle cannot turnover by itself and needs help,” posted another. “Humanity towards every creature is the finest virtue of a living being,” commented a third.
What I found so interesting about this is the evidence of a sophisticated conceptual consciousness in the buffalo. Consider: it must first be aware of the problem because of knowing that a tortoise on its back will be suffering or is in some other way not right.
It must then conceive a solution to this problem, turn it right way up, and then further conceive a method for achieving that. During the action it must have a running awareness of whether or not it is succeeding and adjust its actions accordingly.
Related to that last, it must know when it has accomplished what it set out to do and can stop. No wonder it looked so pleased with itself! Anyone who doubts that animals have minds and mental processes not dissimilar to ours should reconsider.
At the end he knew he was a boss! Looked right at the camera. Animals. More compassion than humans. That face after that: “am I a Good boy?”
The video is being widely praised by the netizens.
