By Jack Newman For Mailonline. A mother giraffe accidentally broke her newborn calf's neck with a fatal misguided kick after attempting to fight off a savage attack from a hungry lioness. The brutal encounter shows a frantic mother wildly kicking out at the deadly lion but tragically striking her own child in the melee rather than the predator in Kenya. Aware that the blow was lethal, and that the hours-old calf had no chance of surviving, the lion strategically retreated to a safe distance before waiting for the baby's inevitable death to occur. The brutal encounter shows a frantic mother wildly kicking out at the deadly lion but tragically striking her own child.
We get the urge because our ancestors did too, even back to the earliest mammals and reptiles. The diversity of animals that have been caught taking a bit of alone time goes far, far beyond dogs humping legs. It should be no surprise to anyone that our primate cousins are champion masturbators. They have hands, after all.