You don\u2019t often stop to consider what it\u2019s like for a wild animal to be a first-time mum.<\/p>\n
\u2018new-mum chaos\u2019 is not exclusively a human phenomenon<\/p>\n
We tend to assume instincts will swoop in, take the wheel and handle everything flawlessly, but while filming season two of Big Cats 24\/7, following a young lioness called Serami, we quickly discovered that \u2018new-mum chaos\u2019 is not exclusively a human phenomenon. In fact, Serami could have had her own parenting reality show, and we would\u2019ve watched every episode.<\/p>\n
Serami\u2019s timing wasn\u2019t ideal. The Xudum Pride was splintering just as she gave birth, with older, wiser females drifting off and leaving the younger lionesses to figure things out solo. And if there\u2019s one thing we learned, it\u2019s that lion society is the backbone of lion survival. \u2018It takes a village to raise a child\u2019 becomes, in lion terms, \u2018it takes a pride to stop everything going terribly, terribly wrong.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You don\u2019t often stop to consider what it\u2019s like for a wild animal to be a first-time mum.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":["post-365037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}