“This is the very sad, sad part…”
Not at all, just humans anthropomorphizing.
I tell my kid after videos like this "if we took a video from the other animals perspective it would be completely different. Perspective is everything.
If this video was “here’s a female crocodile and she is loaded with eggs, if she doesn’t get this last meal before laying eggs she won’t have enough energy to tend her nest and the next generation of crocodiles won’t make it”.
https://crocdoc.ifas.ufl.edu/publications/fieldtrips/nestingcrocodiles/
“Unlike with sea turtles, hatchling crocodiles cannot dig their way out of the nest. They are dependent on mom to open the nest up. Once opened, the young can crawl out on their own or mom gives them a ride to water. Mom can also carry her babies anywhere from a meter to kilometers from the nest to protected nursery habitat.”
