While I was visiting my daughter in San Diego, California, I got the opportunity once again to watch The Discover Channel.
I realize how much I miss my cable television programs.
This is a great channel for children to watch. It teaches young children as well as adults everything you need to know about animals.
Not just wild animals but every kind of animal imaginable. While I was there, I watched a show about a hippo that had been discarded by its mother. The baby hippo had genetic problems and the mother did not want anything to do with it.
As it turned out , the baby hippo would not be able to live a normal healthy life and the mother knew this. This is something that all animals seem to know . When they give birth they will not have anything to do with an unhealthy baby. Perhaps it is because they know that this will only lead to heartbreak.
The mother hippo was starving the baby, so some rescuers took the baby and fed and nourished it. However the baby was deteriorating inside and would not live a healthy life, so they had to put the baby hippo to sleep.
Not all of the stories that they tell , have happy endings, Some do and some dont. That is why I like this channel. They tell it like it is.
This is very educational for children as well as adults.