Dash For Power

A television documentary that I just watched showed amazing examples of altruism between species not before recorded, as well as a quietly remarked series of scenes of adoption, or kidnapping between species. The most dramatic was of a battle between African baboons and wild dogs: at one point the camera shows a larger elder baboon grabbing a pup dog while the helpless parents howled and barked. The pup got away, the baboon grabbed him by the tail and dragged him, very roughly, him yelping, up and down over rocks and hills. The other baboons had driven the dogs back, we hear them howling from the hills.

At this point, the baboon drops the dog, who, confused, mingles with the baboon pups, who lick and play with him. The scenes cut ahead in time, we see the pup grow, being groomed by the adult baboons, which is now a huge indication to all to treat him well.

The scene jumps forward, the baboons and the grown wild dog are all on the hunt for wild game. The dog, now a mascot to the baboons, is all ears, and wonderful as an attack dog against wild dogs to bewilder them to retreat. Ralph, is that you? And you went over to the dark side?

It is apparently happening out there under our noses, even amongst bees, raiding and taking youth back to become willing slaves. This is ancient chemistry, and we wonder how we got the wolf to become a dog?

Apparently we grabbed him roughly by the tail, dragged him so he fully understood was boss, left him half dead for his pups to lick him back to life, and you have a fully trained new member of the work team.

And we thought we invented that.

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