every morning walking along the victoria embankment i see wild fowl, moorhens and cormorants (often catching eels and looking rather like some heraldic beast wrestling snakes). this morning passing a disused mooring opposite temple bar i saw a family of coots at their nest with two small red headed chicks.
i doubt however that the coots will be busy rescuing other animals, unlike a herd of elephants from kwa zulunatal who have liberated captive antelope.
"Did a typically self-confident and noble-looking matriarch know what she was doing this week, when she lifted a set of latches on a game reserve gate and liberated a herd of antelopes?
The deer were being held captive for research and breeding, the sort of thing that offends fellow-animals in children's books, but has little credible history in real life. When a herd of wild elephant trundled up, the researcher Lawrence Anthony thought that they were after the antelopes' fresh lucerne bales (an adult elephant on average eats 165 to 330lbs of greens per day). But instead they circled the pen, the matriarch "very carefully and deliberately" did her work, then they plodded off, leaving the lucerne untouched."