Clever wild boar brings rescue party to save young from a trap

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Researchers observe in a series of photos an unexpected rescue of two young wild boars from a trap. The whole rescue took less than half an hour thanks to a clever adult female wild boar. Aside from the fact of the rescue, there are signs that the rescuer was exhibiting and acting out of empathy for the captives. There is a danger in attributing human-like motivations to animal behavior. We have…

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