First, thing first. Female elephants deserve kudos for enduring a 22 month pregnancy! Although the calves are initially born blind, they don’t have to worry. Everybody, including grandmothers, sisters, aunts and even cousins, help out in every aspect of rearing the young. The alligator’s ‘pregnancy nest’ is a heap of rotting, but ‘heat producing’ vegetation. Result: she doesn’t have to sit on her eggs. Once the babies are born, the mothers actually carry them around in their jaw for protection, assisting them in water. Care begins in the nest for mother hens, who turn their eggs as many as five times an hour. So devoted are the Moms that they refuse to leave their nests even during a fire.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:54:09 +0000
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