The saying “kill or be killed” usually holds up in the wild. But this time around? Not so much…

When you see a hungry lion next to a newborn wildebeest, survival of the fittest pretty much tells you that what happens next is lion lunch. But this lioness wraps her jaws around her vulnerable prey, then has a total change of heart — one you can see on her face as she not only spares the wildebeest, but lets it imprint on her, a practice where a newborn in the wild seeks out a warm body to call mom.

Well, lion lunch has never been cuter.