Tip 1: How animals rear their young

Tip 1: How animals rear their young



Continuation of the genus is a natural process of animals. Moreover, many of them produce offspring several times a year. Of course, wild animals, as well as people, care for their babies, they learn to find food and protect themselves from danger.





How animals raise their cubs


















Instructions





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The least educational process isyoung very prolific small rodents. The offspring is next to the female for no more than 20 days. The main concern of their mothers is the guarding of small rodents from danger and feeding. However, most animals are born with already laid skills, and parents can only show by their example how to get food.





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Larger animals raise their kidsfrom 1.5 to 2 months. Bright representatives of such animals are hedgehogs, rabbits, squirrels, and chipmunks. Jerzy, for example, produce from 3 to 7 cubs, which are born blind and with closed ears. At first the female feeds them with thick milk, and when the little ones get stronger, teaches them to produce food by their own example. Young hares are born sighted and grow incredibly fast. Females feed them with milk for several weeks, after which the babies can already eat the usual food and go into an independent life. Therefore, the rabbit have offspring three times a year.





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But large animals are moreresponsibly to the system of education of their children. In wolves, for example, this is not only the female, but also the male. First the she-wolf feeds offspring with its own milk for 2 months, then the parents feed them with semi-digested meat food, and then - they are taught to kill other animals, bringing them to the lair in the half-dead state. And only after the cubs get stronger, parents take them with them to hunt. The female remains with her offspring for about a year, and only in the new spring the already grown cubs begin an independent life.





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Bears in the educational process is engaged inOnly the female, who alone breeds in her den near the spring. Before the first warm days, she feeds them with her milk, and in the spring, when the whole family goes outside, small cubs begin to grow rapidly due to the large amount of food around. The female teaches them to look for food and protects them from danger. In autumn, small cubs fall into their first hibernation with their mother, and in the spring they begin an independent life.





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Foxes give birth to babies in May, from 3 to 4 cubs. About 6 weeks they feed their own milk, and then extract for them prey. After a month or two, the foxes go into adulthood.





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Well, lions, for example, inherent in the familyupbringing. Since these animals live in families, the females take care not only of their own offspring, but also of the alien. After the kids stop eating milk, the lionesses begin to accustom them to an adult, full of dangers of life, and are taught to hunt. Adult males, as a rule, leave the pack in search of their own family, as they can not get along with each other.




























Tip 2: How animals raise their cubs



Many animals take care of theirthe young. However, they do it in completely different ways. Each family evolved its instincts, which tell them exactly how to behave with the offspring.





How animals raise their cubs








Instructions





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Not all animals after the birth of cubstheir fate cares, but those in whom the parents' instincts are developed, try to transfer their skills to the offspring. Most animals are trained on the example of parents. It is the mother, and in some cases the father also shows the kids how to munch the grass or track down prey, how and in what cases it is necessary to hide, and when it is necessary to engage in a fight.





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The young ones undergo a much needed processtraining and education and during games with each other or with adults. Young animals in a friendly fight sharpen the skill of the battle, and the mother or father are able to seize the desperate scion of the withers, to understand that in which situations should obey the elders and recognize the leader's leadership.





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An important factor in the process of education is theseparation of the child from the mother. Someone leaves the kids almost immediately after birth. Typically, these animals have a large supply of fat, which allows the baby to survive the first weeks (for example, so live seals). Other females drop their grown-up offspring gradually, with each passing hunting to farther and farther, and once completely leaving the young. This is the last maternal lesson - now animals must learn to rely only on their own strengths.





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Not all animal mothers are affectionate and attentive totheir cubs. Some educate the younger generation with the help of cuffs. Such macaques are inclined to such non-pedagogical methods. They scratch, bite and drag the hair of their babies. The most surprising is that monkeys, who were mistreated in childhood, will also raise their descendants. The same macaque, in whose families violence was not used, will not beat their own child either.





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Sometimes animals raise their offspring verystrange methods. The beetle gravedigger is one of the few insect species that takes care of children, with both the father and mother doing it. However, their way is very revealing and harsh: unruly kids are simply eaten by the parents, so that those who remain are not vain.












Tip 3: How to Feed a Hedgehog



Hedgehog ordinary, living in the forests of the middle bandEuropean part of Russia, is well known to everyone since childhood, as a pretty folkloric character. Therefore, with respect to the hedgehog, his way of life, habits and nutrition, there is a certain stereotype that does not coincide with reality in everything.





How to feed a hedgehog








You will need




  • - special food for hedgehogs;
  • - meat, poultry, rabbit meat;
  • - quail eggs;
  • - crickets, beetles, cockroaches.




Instructions





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Think of the hedgehog food in such a way that whenweight 500-700 grams, he consumed about 100 grams of food per day. The food for the hedgehog should contain a lot of calcium, protein and a little fat, since hedgehogs are prone to obesity, which is dangerous for them.





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Feed the animal with a special food for hedgehogs, butif it can not be obtained, then it is possible to choose a diet from easily available products. You can establish contacts with suppliers of crickets, beetles, cockroaches for a hedgehog. You can also feed the hedgehog with mice: at home, the average common hedgehog of an adult mouse is enough for the whole day.





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Replace insects in the hedgehog's diet with meat, if you can not overcome the fastidiousness (many people are disgusted even to look at insects) or can not get them in sufficient quantity.





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Take a piece of beef without fat, veal, rabbit, pass through a meat grinder. Do not add spices, salt, onion. You can use chicken breast or turkey.





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Let's eat 1 tablespoon of meat at a time,make minced meat or cut into very small pieces. Some fruit or berries and nuts are useful for hedgehogs. Once a week, you can offer a hedgehog any new food (for example, minced meat from a rabbit, instead of beef).





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Pamper the young hedgehog with quail eggs once a week, make a hole in the shell before giving the egg to the hedgehog.





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Eliminate from the diet of a hedgehog frozen orcold food, pork, sausages, fish and fish products, canned food, sausage, any food with sugar content (sweets, cakes, compotes, kissels and the like), chicken eggs, milk and dairy products, because hedgehogs practically do not have digestive enzymes lactose (only pregnant females recommend goat's milk in very small amounts). And also categorically do not feed the hedgehogs with salted, fried, sour, fatty and sweet food.





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Do not feed hedgehogs snails and slugs. Despite the fact that in nature the hedgehogs eat them with pleasure, snails and slugs in the natural habitat are often infected with parasites. There is a danger that the hedgehog, too, in turn will become infected.











Tip 4: How animals teach their cubs



The instinct of procreation is inherent in all animals. However, after the offspring came into being, the animals react differently to it. Some species leave the kids after a week or two, while others are methodically engaged in training the younger generation.





How animals teach their cubs








Instructions





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As a rule, it is less responsible to one's ownthe offspring are small animals that can bring a few litters per year. For small rodents is not peculiar touching care of children. The female spends time with the cubs while they are blind and helpless, feeding their milk and protecting them from predators, and after two or three weeks the animals should already become independent. They can develop their instincts by observing the mother and other members of the pack.





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Larger animals, whose offspring are fewerand for a long time growing up, they approach the training of the young with all responsibility, by their own example showing them skills that will be useful in life. A female deer will teach its baby which plants should be eaten and how best to hide in case of danger. And if an inexperienced deer lingers, the female will push it towards the shelter.





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Predators, in turn, train their childrenhunting. The female accustoms them to the adult diet gradually, first feeding them with semi-digested meat, then bringing the killed prey, then - the wounded, with which the offspring will be able to cope in the lair. Over time, the female, and in some cases the male, takes the young to hunt, where the animals together track down, catch up and slaughter the victim.





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Monkeys are the species closest toman, so their cubs undergo comprehensive training. In addition to the necessary skills - what to eat and how to avoid danger, chimpanzees teach their young behavior rules. The scientists found out that monkeys, grown up without mothers, behaved aggressively and did not know how to interact normally with the rest of the pack. Pass adult monkeys to kids and their wisdom - for example, the technology of cracking nuts or ways to use sticks, and in each flock can be their own techniques, which are taught to the offspring.











Tip 5: How dolphins punish their young



Female dolphins are very similar in methods of educationoffspring with a man. They take care of their children until they are stronger, they will not grow up. Delfinenok, unlike a human child, is born enough independent, with hearing, vision, the ability to swim, to distinguish his mother from other dolphins.





How dolphins punish their young








Instructions





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Female dolphins are very caring mothers. These animals are not only one of the smartest on the planet, but also belong to devoted and quivering parents. Delphinics raise their children for a year or longer, feed them, help them to adapt in their environment, search for food, and protect them.





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First time, the female after the birth is difficult,since her child almost does not sleep after birth, publishing the semblance of a child's crying at the time of starvation. In addition, a newborn dolphin can not hold its breath for too long in the first days of life, so every three minutes it needs to float to the surface to breathe in air. The mother is constantly watching her baby. Therefore, he does not leave him a moment and at the same time he does not sleep with him practically the entire first month of his life.





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During the first year of his life, the dolphingoes far away from her mother, circling around her in small circles. If he deviates too much in his circle around her, sails, flirts, the mother can also punish him for his bad behavior. In the basin, for example, it was observed that if the dolphin swam away from the mother too far, or swam to other related individuals, his mother could push her baby to the bottom of the pool with her rostrum (her nose), not allowing him to rise to the surface and take a sip of air for a while .





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Actions of the mother of the dolphin at his punishmentare fully justified. The fact is that mammalian males, in contrast to female dolphins, are very aggressive towards the younger generation. Can cause serious injuries, bites. Or attack the defenseless cub with a whole flock, not letting him breathe air and pushing his mother away from him. Because the mothers of dolphins teach the children in advance far from them not to sail, until the grown up dolphins are not strengthened and can not defend themselves. When the dolphin grows up, if he is a male, then he joins the male flock, which is kept apart from the female flock.











Tip 6: How the beasts of the cubs are taught to hunt



If we consider the interaction of animals withtheir cubs in the modern perception, then we can safely present this in the form of a commercial transaction: some merchant partners (mother and father) offer their services (upbringing and care) to other merchants (their cubs). The young, in turn, guarantee them a successful survival and a new offspring in the future.





Hunger is the best mentor in learning to hunt!







Deal is not for life

To all participants of such a "deal" in the futureto achieve productive results, often mother and father have to take radical measures that seem to the person meaningless or cruel. For example, if the brood lacks a forage, then the female needs, above all, to feed the strongest young. The fate of outsiders does not bother her any more, since they are doomed to death a priori. When one brood is not one, but a few calves at once, then their sphere of communication is somewhat enlarged, as relationships between sisters and brothers appear. For example, young and untrained cubs still have to fight for the food they are still being brought by an adult female, for a happy place to be with her in inclement weather, etc. After a while it's time to train your offspring hunting.

How do animals teach their young hunts?

One of the most striking examples of hunting trainingshow, of course, mammals from the cat family. For example, by teaching their young hunters skills, females provide them with live "samples" of prey - caught gazelles, antelopes, birds, warthogs, wild boars, etc. It turns out something like "visual aid".
The expression "playing like a cat with a mouse" happenedfrom one hunting nuance of domestic cats. Before you eat a caught mouse, the cat loves to play with it. Zoologists are sure that this is a kind of training for strengthening skills.
Female cheetah does not kill prey, but dragshalf-dumb animal to their children for the purpose of training them. She lets go of the half-stifled prey, and they, in turn, try to hunt for it independently. If the prey fools the kittens and escapes, then the female catches up with her, and the lesson begins anew.

A useful incentive for learning to hunt

It is curious that often beast-parents resort toradical methods of training the hunting skills of their young. For example, a female of the same cheetah brings quick prey to its kittens, and then releases it to freedom. If the kittens catch up with her-they are tasting for the sweet soul, if not, they remain without dinner. As they say, hunger is the best mentor!
Female bears at the river banks show their cubs, as much as possible, with their paws, to catch a huge fish in the water. Sometimes the she-bears stimulate their children to hunt, eating their own prey.
This is how the huntingskills of the younger generation of most animals. By the way, the approximate age of many fauna representatives, in which their parents take them for real hunting, is about 4 months old. However, the cubs will not be able to procure their own food for quite some time, parents will help them.