Where on this scale is the kiwi bird?
The Joys of Motherhood
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Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Depending on whether there’s egg binding or not…
Deebster@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I had to look it up too. You might want to stop reading after the Kangaroo paragraph.
Kangaroos are born after less than a month, and then climb into the pouch, attach to a teat and stay there for half a year before being ready to face the outside world.
Spotted Hyenas gestate for about 110 days and then have to make it though the mother’s pseudo penis, which can tear with first-time mothers (fatal to her) and can suffocate the cub (fatal to them) with cubs of first-time mums only having a 40% chance of surviving birth.
TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org 1 day ago
Evolution at its best.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It just works (well enough)!
Furbag@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The kangaroo baby is also like the size of a jellybean when it comes out into the pouch. Very easy birth for the mum.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 day ago
Good to know the Kangaroo one is in fact essentially “The baby just pops up in the pouch one day.”
prettybunnys@piefed.social 22 hours ago
Then grows like a tumor