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Here are some tidbits about mothers in the animal world. What do you know about animal moms?

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  • A baby baleen whale depends on its mother's milk diet for at least six months.
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  • A baby Harp seal doubles its weight in only five days after birth, thanks to the amount of protein in its mother's milk.
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  • It takes a horse sixty days to double its birth weight.
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  • A female kangaroo that has become a recent mother holds a reserve embryo inside of her after her first baby has crawled into her pouch. This embryo is an "emergency back-up" baby, should the first one die prematurely.
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  • A female oyster over her lifetime may produce over 100 million young.
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  • A mother giraffe often gives birth while standing, so the newborn's first experience outside the womb is a 1.8-meter (6-foot) drop.
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  • Just like people, mother chimpanzees often develop lifelong relationships with their offspring.
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  • Kittens are born both blind and deaf, but the vibration of their mother's purring is a physical signal that the kittens can feel - it acts like a homing device, signaling them to nurse.
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  • If frightened or threatened, a mother rabbit may abandon, ignore, or eat her young.
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  • Mother Mexican free-tailed bats find and nurse their own young, even in huge colonies where many millions of babies cluster at up to 500 bats per square foot.
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  • Mother prairie dogs will nurse their young only while underground in the safety of the burrow. If an infant tries to suckle above ground, the mother will slap it.
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  • The eggs of the marsupial frog are laid in a brood pouch on the mother's back, and the young hatch out in a zipper-like fashion from the pouch.
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  • The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
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  • When baby opossum are born, they are so small that an entire litter can fit in a tablespoon. They live inside their mother's pouch for three months before climbing out and riding on her back.

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