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Mum, Cindy, broke off a branch, and with almost super human strength, wrestled the cougar to the ground. Locked in combat, she ordered the two other children to take Steven to safety. It would be some time before they found help. With Steven safe, his brother returned to the forest to search for his mother, with family friend, Jim Mania.
"I had to move over about three or four feet, took a couple of steps to my right, and there was the cat, and the head of the cat was right over top of Cindy's head".When they found Cindy, She was barely alive. She had been wrestling with cougar for over two hours. Jim took his gun and shot the cougar.
Despite terrible injuries, Cindy had clung on to life. "I really believe that she kept herself alive to see what had happened to her children. And I think after hearing that her children were safe, then she decided, at that point, said hey, it is time to go". Cindy died of her wounds on the way to the hospital. The instinct to protect her children led her to make the ultimate sacrifice.
"Happy part of this is knowing that my mum was brave. And that she was willing enough to do anything for us kids. Sad part of this is that I think that she's just gone now and I am never going to see her again". In saving her son, Cindy demonstrated the most powerful heroic instinct we know, a mother's drive to protect her young.
Human beings have evolved to feel deeply protective towards their children, it seems perfectly natural but it might have been very different. Unlike most animals, humans usually just have one baby at a time, which makes each of our offspring uniquely precious, which is why we invest so much in our children and are prepared to go to such unparallel length to protect them.
Millions of years of evolution have made us all loving parents. Right from the moment of birth our brains and bodies help us bond instinctively with a newborn child. The key to making that happen is a hormone we human share with all other mammals. It’s called oxytocin. It has a knee-jerk and powerful effects.
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