Everybody likes to watch them playcute young animals. But for many kids, such games are a process of maturation, education and training. By training their skills in this way, the crumbs are preparing to lead an independent adult life. In addition to such independent development, many young babies are trained thanks to the sensitive care of their parents. But some representatives of the animal world are special examples of care for the offspring that has appeared.
Медведицы, живущие на Крайнем Севере, еще до appearance of babies begin to care about their well-being. They prepare a lair in advance and intensively gain weight in order to provide the bear cub with food throughout the polar night. After the birth of the babies are completely helpless, so they need a sensitive care of the mother. For eight months, she nurtures her offspring. With the arrival of spring, the bear continues to take care of the little ones, taking them out for fishing, teaching them to catch quick prey in the water. But on this maternal feelings do not pass. A few more years, the cubs follow their mother, who protects them from dangers and teaches how to adapt to life in harsh lands.
Carrying offspring of elephants lasts 22 months.After giving birth, an animal cub is not deprived of maternal affection, which manifests itself around the clock. Such attention is important because the baby elephant is born completely blind. A mother can feed her offspring before the next offspring, despite the fact that he has been learning to eat solid food already from six months. It is also interesting that, in addition to their own mother, other members of the herd take care of the crumbs, as if about their own. Other "nannies" are also ready to protect babies from predators, like their own mother.
Among the most caring mothers - representativesfeline. This includes not only ordinary cats, but also dangerous wild animals: tigers, cougars, lynx and many others. A calf of an animal from this family owes its survival only to the mother, since fathers very rarely participate in the upbringing. The cat takes care of the babies from their very birth. She feeds, licks and practically does not move away from kittens in the first days of their life. Over time, the mother teaches them to hunt, bringing them half-dead prey so that they develop the appropriate skills. In addition, the cat is ready to protect its offspring from dangerous animals, snapping at the object showing aggression, or can transfer the children by the scruff of the neck to a more peaceful place. In this family, young animals (wild and domestic) are really lucky, because their mothers are ready to sacrifice themselves for their sake.
Cats are so developed maternalinstincts that they are ready to raise even other people's children. There were cases when the mother cat took squirrels, chickens and other crumbs left orphaned. The photos of pets with cubs given in this article demonstrate how mothers “adopted” other people's babies. Sometimes at the same time so lucky and kittens too.
Oddly enough, these reptiles are alsoexemplary parents. Even before laying eggs, the female diligently chooses the place of "incubation". Interestingly, the young of this animal acquire sex, depending on the temperature of the place where the eggs lie. That is why caring mother makes two different clutches. She covers one of them with cool moss, and the second she hides in the leaves, so that the temperature is higher and the males appear. In addition, during the entire incubation period, the mother protects her clutches so that all the babies remain unharmed. Waiting for the appearance of babies, she transports everyone in her mouth to the water, where she protects offspring for about a year.
In wolves, both parents are involved in the educationoffspring. This is a good example of how animals take care of cubs in pairs and teach them all the wisdom of life. After the appearance of the cubs, the female feeds them with milk for about two months. Further, not only the mother but also the father begins to take care of food for the puppies, giving them semi-digested food. When the kids grow up a little more, parents bring live prey in their teeth, teaching them to kill the victim. Having acquired such skills, cubs begin to go hunting together with adults. Independent life in puppies begins in a year.
Almost all primates do not leave their babies.after birth. But there may be differences between the representatives of the detachment in the methods of education. For example, most macaques are not examples of parents' affectionate behavior: they can bite and scratch their babies. Also, if these mothers are unhappy with something, they can grab the hair of their crumbs. Growing up, macaques also behave with their offspring, but if the parents did not hurt the baby as a child, he will not hurt his brood.
In families, chimpanzees are different.They care about their child so much that they are ready to die for it. Thanks to the love of the mother, the baby cub gains confidence and over time can take a good position in the monkey family. The mother always tries to keep the baby around and communicates with him with the help of sounds, gestures and facial expressions.
Но не все животные так трепетно оберегают свой litter. Some mothers leave their crumbs right after their birth. Basically, this is practiced in those animals that are from birth prepared for independent living. For example, newborn seals have sufficient fat reserves, and they do not die of starvation even though their mothers leave them.
Also, the cub of the animal may be left without guardianship.after some time. The female at the same time excommunicates the baby gradually. A mother can go farther and farther from the crumbs each time, returning to him takes more and more time, and one day she just does not come.
The fact is that the more often the animalbrings offspring, so carelessly it belongs to its crumbs. Proof are small rodents, which are very prolific. The role of the mother is not feeding, but feeding. Often, after twenty days, kids leave their nest. For example, hares grow very quickly. A few weeks after the birth of a hare can begin to lead an independent life.
There are many animals on earth, and each species in its own way belongs to its own offspring. Here are some examples of motherhood in the animal world.
