Worst Animal Parents In The World

Having children is no walk in the park, but if you thought your childhood wasn't perfect, wait until you hear some of the things happening in the

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kingdom, from mothers encouraging sibling violence to sneaky abandonment tactics and even moms hungry people eating food. Cuckoos are some of the most infamous bad mothers in the entire

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kingdom. For these birds, the stress of breeding is too difficult to take on, so avoid all the hassle, they abandon their young before they are even born, when she is ready to lay an egg, a female cuckoo will rush into the unattended nest. of a smaller species, it will then swallow one of the eggs that have been laid there and lay one of its own in its place.

This behavior is known as elaborate parasitism and is a very clever tactic when leaving its own egg in another's nest. bird. The mother cuckoo transfers the responsibility of raising her young to another unsuspecting mother and unburdens herself in the process, freeing herself to go live. Unfortunately for its victims, the cuckoo chick is not a welcome addition to any nest; In fact, this imposter chick usually hatches earlier and grows faster than the other bird's actual brood, forcing the smaller chicks to leave the nest where they will live. They are likely to die, sometimes target birds rebel. Parents inhabiting the nest may harass the mother cuckoo to prevent her from dropping her egg.

Alternatively, they may even push the cuckoo's eggs before they hatch or abandon the nest entirely, but most often the cuckoo. Mom gets away with her evil plan undetected, leaving her victim with another big greedy mouth to feed to man Nature really is tough sometimes Buries beetles for such small creatures Buries beetles has some scary motherly tactics true to her These endangered black and orange insects bury the corpses of small vertebrates such as birds and mice as a food source for their larvae. Once they hatch inside their new, fleshy homely mother, they regurgitate the pre-digested meat to feed their children. but there is a small problem: there is rarely enough meat for everyone when they're hungry, the burrowing beetle larva bothers for food by touching their

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' mouths with their legs, but there is a crucial rule they must remember, they bother mom too much and prepare to pay the maximum price. who bother them the most according to research from the University of Edinburgh.

This ruthless parental behavior encourages the larva to beg more honestly based on their hunger instead of trying to outdo their siblings by constantly pestering them for more. The threat of being eaten also allows the larva to be eaten. mother beetle to maintain some control over how she feeds her young who fight like other mammals and birds that bury beetles seem to favor older young because they are more likely to grow and survive to procreate, so if you are a baby beetle that she values ​​her life, no It's not worth bothering mom unless you're really hungry, unlike mom who buries the beetle, I love to be bothered and what's the best way to bother me by pressing the Like and Subscribe buttons and ringing that little bell icon.

Duh, you won't get delicious in return, but what you will get is a ton of awesome content right in your subscription box, so what are you waiting for? Sharks often get a bad reputation as nothing more than bloodthirsty psychopathic killers and their parenting habits don't do much to improve this - in fact, mom sharks are notoriously bad at raising children before they even give birth. You see some sharks have live births with placentas a bit like mammals, but others have live babies without an organ to feed the developing fetuses, so how do they get their nutrients?

I heard you ask well, eating their own brothers, this is how these sharks begin their life by waking up inside a small black cave populated by their brothers and sisters who look like them, but little do they know that this womb is about to become . In the next Hunger Games arena, there may be up to 20 eggs starting in two wombs and each of them will hatch and live peacefully inside their mother until they grow sharp jaws and feel their tiny bellies rumbling, aka. the 20 baby sharks that are only born. one from each womb will survive to be born into the

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, which probably explains why adult sharks have such resentment.

It's pretty hard to imagine what it would feel like to have 20 pairs of frantic jaws opening inside you at once, but it's safe to say it probably won't be pleasant - mommy sharks don't go around smoking or drinking during pregnancy - but they certainly deserve negative points. breeding for harboring a terrifying death match inside your own womb For starters, they have the

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's strongest mammal bite pound for pound, but there's also the question of how they raise their children to prepare them for a life as one of the most fearsome creatures on earth, the first thing they experience when they open The Eyes is a Thunderdome-style deathmatch in which less than 1 in 10 will survive.

You see, the mother Tasmanian devil will give birth to up to 50 little babies called joeys at a time. but there is one big problem, she only has four nipples to go around, unfortunately the phrase sharing is caring means nothing to a tasmanian devil, so the rules are simple, whoever can get to mommy's feeding nipples first and latch on strong wins, only the strongest survive, while the remaining 46 cubs starve to death before even getting a fair chance to live. There seems to be no logical reason why this would happen. Instead, Mother Nature allows the Tasmanian devil to give birth to 50 cubs and then lets 92 of them die immediately. in order to teach them that sharing is for losers baby harp seals harp seals are incredibly cute and you will be pleased to know that harp seal moms love these furry little pups as much as you do for a total of about 12 days which is during This period that harp seal mothers feed their pups non-stop and don't even take a break to fill their bellies because the pups are born without fat, their mother's milk has 50 fats, allowing 20-pound newborns After 12 days, the emaciated female harp seal decides it's time to make a quick exit by letting her baby managed on its own, but unlike other species with such abrupt weaning periods.

The harp seal pups are not prepared enough to live on their own, but are left stranded on the ice for the next month and a half with absolutely no food or protection and during this time the pups will lose half their body weight. With no resources to replenish it, eventually when they are about eight weeks old they will be able to swim and be ready to start hunting for their own food, but until that day comes they will have to endure a dangerous period of possible starvation being hunted by predators. or drowning in the middle of melting ice All things considered, it's no surprise that at least 30 percent of all harp seal pups die within their first year of life, talk about absentee breeding, geez, it's getting pretty intense here if you had to be raised by one.

Of the bad

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we've seen so far, which one would you choose? Let me know in the comments below, but be warned, it's only going to get worse from here on out, for the Dracula ants. Now the word Dracula alone should be enough to tell you that there's not much bonding between mother and baby here, but nothing can prepare you for the plight of young ant Dracula. Although these small insects have the fastest animal jaws in all of nature, they ironically lack the ability to chew solid food, making them the worker ants in the colony. They depend on another source for their nutrition rather than their own larva for satiety, they will go and harvest the fattest larvae, cut them open and drink their blood, which they will then regurgitate for the queen.

This bloodthirsty behavior is known as larval hemolymph feeding, which sounds nice. To me it's bleak, but you'll be surprised to know that it could actually be a lot worse. You will see that this ant's type of cannibalism is classified as non-destructive, meaning that while the larvae are partially eaten, they actually survive to adulthood, some people say that "We have been left with emotional scars from their upbringing, but in the case of Dracula the ant, I suppose those scars manifest themselves in a much more permanent way Christmas Island red crab Every year, between October and December, 50 million Christmas Island red crabs migrate from their homes. homes in the jungle, they come to the coast to spawn in the sea in a spectacular event after the crabs mate, the females lay about a hundred thousand eggs each, they can only spawn once a month with the tides and a phase. special moon with such specific conditions required for their birth, you would think that the resulting babies would be totally sacred or something, but you would be wrong: the newly spawned crabs float in the sea for the first month of their life and, if they have the Luck enough, the currents bring them.

We return to Christmas Island, but if some of the spawning crabs decide to migrate late in order to catch the same tide a month later, a remarkably strange situation can occur. Pregnant female crabs come ashore to spawn at the same time as last month's baby crabs. She encountered a living red carpet coming out of the water and back into the jungle and you might expect pregnant women to stop and use their maternal instincts to help newborn babies find their way home safely, but in Instead they do this, yes, that. Mother crab pops tiny babies into her mouth like crunchy red popcorn, it's not uncommon for expectant crabs to stop and feast on newborn babies if they fancy a snack, and mother crabs have also been known to They eat their own young if they are quite hungry.

One 2007 study even found that there was little difference between crabs that had not carried eggs classified as non-ovigerous and ovigerous crabs that had recently carried eggs when it came to cannibalizing their own eggs. youths. I guess he really is a crank. Crab World, Hamsters Now, if you thought these popular pets were nothing more than innocent little balls of fluff, think again watching your female hamster fuss over a litter of cute pink babies can be an exciting time, but don't worry. You might be surprised if you check your cage one day to find some, if not all, of the missing babies and where they disappear into mommy hamster's stomach, that's where and not in some kind of weird reverse pregnancy, or she literally eats them, it's A horrible thought, but hamsters are quite famous for ingesting their own young, there are conflicting opinions about what could motivate them to commit such a heinous crime against hamsters.

Some believe it's because hamster mothers are malnourished after giving birth and need extra nutrients, others theorize that the babies are eaten so the mom isn't. I have to take care of such a large number of children considering that each litter can contain up to 20 puppies generally speaking, although if a hamster is overwhelmed by stress and feels that taking care of its own young is more than it can handle, then it can choose the easiest path. Taking them out and eating them instead seems like a big leap, but who knows what's going on inside those little brains.

If you are a proud hamster owner and your female hamster becomes pregnant, it is important to try to maintain a calm, stress-free environment. He also gets enough food that he doesn't start seeing his own children as a potential midnight snack Koalas, I'm sorry to say I'm probably going to ruin the cheesy image you probably have of koalas, A newborn baby koala named Joey looks like a little jelly bean Pink, hairless, blind, earless and no more than two centimeters long, depending on its sense of smell, touch and strong forelimbs, the joey makes its way from the birth canal to the pouch. completely unaided, where it adheres. up to its mother's teat, the joey stays there for six to seven months until it grows ears and fur and opens its eyes, but then at around 22 weeks, baby koalas switch milk for a new type of food called dad, what is dad?, you ask, well, it's poop and it's not. any old poop, specially made creamy extra moist poop, this specialized poop helps the mother transmit microorganisms present to the joey from herin their own digestive system, which are essential for the digestion of the eucalyptus leaves that will eventually become the main source of any koala's diet.

At first, the baby peeks out of the pouch on the mother's abdomen to feed on the porridge and then gradually emerges to lie on the mother's belly to feed as it grows, once the joey is old enough to ride. on his mother's back, he can finally graduate. Eat fresh leaves and I bet it's a relief. I imagine it's exhausting to be served the same poop sandwich for lunch every day. Black Eagles, Any mother with more than one child knows how exhausting it can be when siblings constantly fight, sometimes it's best to just let them wear each other down, but most moms know when it's time to step in and break up. things, unless you are a black eagle which is for these magnificent birds of prey that fly over the forests in the mountainous regions of tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia. china staying out of it seems to be the way to go, in fact if a fight breaks out in the nest between two chicks, mom usually just sits and watches what happens in the front row seats, usually the feathered fight only ends when finishes the chick older and stronger. kill the younger brother, the least one would expect in this situation is for the mother eagle to scold her son for literally murdering his younger brother, but in many cases the mother and the surviving eaglet will not then eat the remains of the young people killed in celebration now listen, I'm all for teaching children important life lessons, but surely there is a better way to learn about the survival of the fittest hippo, although hippos can be fearsome creatures, they are actually quite the parents. decent.

Of the time, female hippos called cows give birth once every two years, usually to a single calf. Unsurprisingly, mother hippos are usually quite protective of their babies, although baby hippos can swim right away and They can weigh between 55 and 120 pounds, which is about the weight of a large adult dog. Shortly after birth, the mother and her baby will join the other cows and calves to protect themselves against predators such as crocodiles, lions, and hyenas, but sometimes The real threat lies a little closer to home, although it is surprising that several cases have been recorded of dominant male bulls in the group attacking and killing younger male hippo calves that they consider a threat to their dominance.

This stunning photograph captured by wildlife photographer Adrian Hershey in 2019 shows the moment an aggressive bull grabbed a newborn hippo in its crushing jaws, sometimes several members of the herd will gang up on a calf as the mother fights. She stands still with no choice but to watch the horror unfold, and so far, research into why hippos sometimes turn on their own young soon after being introduced to the herd is limited because these aggressive creatures are difficult to study. up close, however, some theorize that male hippos are particularly aware of overpopulation and the pressure placed on the herd each dry season as the amount of water decreases in the waterhole.

Turns out the saying is one less mouth to feed. These semi-aquatic mammals are taken very seriously by horses, females or mares have a gestation period of at least 340 days, which to anyone who has been pregnant before sounds like an awfully long time, you would expect a mare to She would take it easy until her precious calf was born. she finally arrives, but she actually spends her time in a very different way, the moment the mayor becomes pregnant, she leaves and immediately engages in playful activities with all the stallions in the herd. Now I know that this doesn't make much sense from an evolutionary perspective after all.

She's already pregnant, but these playful mares actually have an ulterior motive for all their fraternization. You see, male horses are notoriously proud animals, they hate competition, so if they come across a foal that isn't theirs, they usually kick it to death, but they attract it. line of killing their own kind, they are not total monsters, so the pregnant mare's goal is to mate with every stallion in the herd so that it is impossible for her to determine whether the foal is hers or not, which means that They probably won't kick it. to death, but these crafty moms also have a backup plan, if they can't cross all the men off their to-do list, they will abort the pregnancy themselves.

Scientists aren't exactly sure how this happens, but it is believed to be the result of a natural chemical process within the mare if she senses she will be in danger from aggressive males fighting for dominance. now there's something to think about the next time you pass by a field of horses peacefully grazing fire ants if you thought dracula ants had a brutal start in life just wait until you hear about fire ants in fact fire ants have lucky if they reach adulthood if they are born males, that gender is a pretty hot topic among this ant colony, while the female ants do all the work. including hunting, foraging and caring for their young, all male ants do is eat mates and defecate, it sounds like anyone you know, the only reason women keep them around is because they can't reproduce without them, but this presents a problem with having too many men. around is a waste of resources and means there are just more lazy, good-for-nothing mouths to feed trying to stay on top of things.

Drone workers will not hesitate to kill any type they encounter on the site and this is not just a random thing, either female workers often embark on a systematic cull of all males during the larval stage, but this puts the female ants at odds with the queen because the species would inevitably die without any males around to try to maintain a good balance the queen will overwhelm the colony with male eggs while the workers go on their murderous rampage eventually the women tire and some males lucky ones reach adulthood maybe these radical feminist ants have gone too far giant pandas ever felt like you Parents prefer your brother over you, well, be glad you weren't born a giant panda.

These calm creatures are famous for their love and affection, but they are also some of the

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parents in the animal kingdom when panda cubs are born. They are quite helpless, they are blind and have no hair, they weigh between three and five ounces and are about nine-hundredths the size of their mothers. Panda mothers often have twins, but there is a small problem: they almost never care for more than one cub, Instead, the mother chooses the weaker of the two brothers and will begin to ignore him in favor of the stronger brother, of course, without the love and protection of his mother, the weaker cub will almost certainly die.

There are a couple of possible reasons why pandas adopt the survival of the fittest mentality. Firstly, their diet, since bamboo is notoriously low in nutrients, it is almost impossible for a mother to produce enough milk to feed two cubs, plus panda moms must keep their babies attached to their own body to maintain the body heat and must be held close to her chest to nurse because mom has to do basically everything for her baby, she just doesn't have the resources to split that attention both ways, so she makes the difficult decision to abandon a puppy to increase chances of the others surviving, fortunately, although cubs abandoned in zoos are Komodo dragons can reach up to 10 feet long and weigh more than 300 pounds, making them the heaviest lizards in the world. a female is ready to mate, she emits a scent in her excrement for the males to follow once a male locates the female, he scratches her back and licks her body and if she licks him, they mate with the pregnant females and then they lay around 30 eggs that they bury. on land until they hatch eight months later, while the eggs are incubated in the nest, the female may lie down on the nest to protect them, but there is absolutely no evidence of parental care for newborn komodos.

Small hatchlings are particularly vulnerable during the early stages of their lives. In life after birth, babies often struggle to climb the nearest tree to safety, only the strongest will succeed, while the weakest often fall victim to predators, including other adult Komodo dragons, because Komodo dragons have both male and female sex chromosomes. Females are capable of reproducing asexually through a process called parthenogenesis, but this process has a major drawback: it only produces soles and because parthenogenesis is not the Komodo's preferred method of reproduction, if there are no breeding males nearby, When a Komodo mother is in heat, she will sometimes mate with her own. man children, these large lizards must be carrying some serious childhood trauma if they had to be reincarnated as one of these animals from birth, which one would they choose?

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