4 Maccabees 14:15

¹³And consider how comprehensive is the love of offspring, which draws everyone to sympathy of affection,

¹⁴where irrational animals possess a similar sympathy and love for their offspring with men.

— 4 Maccabees 14:15 —

¹⁶Others build their nests, and hatch their young, in the tops of mountains and in the precipices of valleys, and the holes and tops of trees, and keep off the intruder.

¹⁷And if not able to do this, they fly circling round them in agony of affection, calling out in their own note, and save their offspring in whatever manner they are able.