Animals have emotions just like we do.
Often they give baby animals that [lo.st] mother a stuffed animal for comfort. This mother proved it helps both ways. She needed something to hold.
A tagged wolf in the Pacific Northwest stunned wildlife researchers after trail cameras captured her wandering through the forest carrying a small teddy bear in her mouth. Just weeks earlier, the female wolf had reportedly [lo.st] her pup after it was [st.ru.ck] and [k.i.ll.ed] while crossing a rural highway.
According to the team monitoring her movements, her GPS collar remained near the roadside for nearly five straight days after the incident, barely moving at all. When biologists finally located her, they said she appeared severely malnourished, refused food, and was showing signs they feared she might not recover from.
But about a month later, cameras began recording something no one on the team could explain. The wolf was repeatedly seen carrying around a stuffed teddy bear, gently holding it in her mouth and even sleeping beside it at night as if it were still her pup.
Researchers now believe it may be one of the first documented cases of a wild wolf displaying an extreme grief-related psychological response, seemingly attaching emotionally to the toy after the [lo.ss] of her young.
“She treated it the same way a mother would treat a living pup,” one tracker reportedly said. “None of us had ever witnessed behavior like this before.”
Some researchers later admitted the footage was difficult to watch, saying it felt less like observing a predator… and more like watching a grieving mother unable to let go. 
Mommas are living in all species
Some animals are better Moms than some humans
