The mothering instinct.

Transcending the species.

This video has been making the rounds and for good reason; few cannot be genuinely touched by it. A female monkey, having undergone a C-section during birth and separated from her newborn while under sedation, obviously believes her baby is lost until discovering he is not. Her ecstatic joy is wonderfully apparent. This writer, not being a mother, cannot empathize fully with this one, nor any others, animal or human, but close is close enough and we may all rejoice in this mother’s joy.

There are other lessons here, but your Tatler’s readers may easily discern them for themselves, thus no further remarks are needed, save for: God is good.

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Anthony Chase Fountain

The Tatler of 1709 was founded by Jonathan Swift, aka Isaac Bickerstaff. The Taos Tatler was founded by ex-New Yorker Anthony Fountain in 2018, in the same spirit, he hopes, as the original. Please send mail to taostatler@gmail.com.

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