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Which parent gives Across the animal FAMILY FAVOURITE
kingdom, parents adopt
unusual strategies to
its life for its young? give their young a head Female giant pandas often give
birth to twin cubs, born blind
start in life. From mothers
eaten by their children
and hairless. The mother may
to fathers giving birth,
some species go to great choose to raise only one cub. In
captive breeding, the abandoned
lengths to ensure their twin is cared for in an incubator.
families continue for
generations to come.
Jawfish fathers hold the Seahorse fathers hatch eggs laid by Hundreds of Surinam toad eggs
mother’s eggs in their mouth the mother in a pouch on the male’s are embedded in the skin of the
until hatching time, going stomach, using contractions to give mother’s back, later erupting as
without food for up to 10 days. birth to up to 2,000 live young. toadlets. The mother is unharmed.
Yellow-headed Spotted Surinam
jawfish seahorses toads
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