Video: Maternal instinct in animals: how our smaller brothers take care of children
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The maternal instinct is inherent not only in humans, but also in animals. Moreover, he has nothing to do with either kindness or a sense of responsibility. The prudent nature "rewarded" the entire female half with this quality solely for the sake of the youngs being able to survive until they get stronger and cannot take care of themselves and get food on their own. Everyone knows very well how a person takes care of their child. But little is known about the animal maternal instinct.
The most caring orangutan females are considered. They raise their young for about 10 years: they teach them how to get food, distinguish edible from poisonous grass, build a nest, and protect themselves from rain.
Female polar bears also behave in an interesting way. They plan their pregnancy in advance, absorbing fat in unrealistic quantities and tearing out a den more spaciously. As a result, the female bears gain up to 200 kg of excess weight and only after that they become pregnant. But after giving birth, young mothers go on a forced diet: they feed the cubs with milk for a long time, unable to rise to the surface and refresh themselves.
Killer whale females cannot be denied vigilance. The fact is that newborn dolphins cannot sleep for a month after their birth. Their mothers have to adhere to the same schedule in order to be able to track the restless offspring and protect the young from numerous enemies in time.
The most ungrateful babies are the children of the spider Amaurobius ferox. The female lays up to 100 eggs at a time, of which only half hatch. Newborn spiders first eat unhatched eggs, and then their mother. Surprisingly, the female not only does not resist, but also voluntarily feeds herself to the cubs.
The role of the mother in seahorses is assigned, oddly enough, to the father of the family. The female simply throws the eggs into the bag to her partner, and for 3 months he carefully bears the future offspring. After the seahorses hatch, the same father continues to take care of them. Children do not leave their parent's bags and even as adults they often hide in it from enemies.
To continue describing examples of the manifestation of the maternal instinct in animals can be endless. One thing is clear: they, just like people, are eagerly awaiting replenishment, take care of babies, rejoice at the successes of their cubs and are encouraged in every possible way.
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