The Cranberries - Animal Instinct

Sitting here watching The Nature of Things, I can't help but root on the wildebeest as thousands of them attempt to cross a river filled with alligators. Of course I always end up rooting for the small and weak and they always end up being eaten or getting trampled. It all makes my little cushy seat in my home seem, well, cushy.

Now it's the gazelle's turn to cross. If there was ever an animal you wanted to root for, it's the gazelle. They're small and cute. Like animal crackers. And that's exactly what the alligators are thinking. Good god, the slaughtering, the raping and pillaging!! Poor little gazelle :( SWIM LITTLE GAZELLE...SWIM!!!

Of course the nature channel always throws in a feel good story for us viewers. Otherwise this show would be so depressing and I'd be curled in the fetal position and crying by now.

So there's this gazelle and get this, it's a female gazelle. To top that all off, she's pregnant! She needs to cross the river but seeing how all her other gazelle lady friends were eaten by those nasty alligators she's a bit hesitant. After all, she's swimming for two. So she decides to go upstream a little to the rapids where there are fewer alligators. The risk is that she might drown crossing. This is when they crank the triumphant music and slow down the video as she swims across. And she does make it across :)

All this suspense and action has got me hungry. I'm going to go eat.