What Are Some Ways That Animals Protect Their Young?

How Animals Take Intendance Of Their Eggs and Young

Posted on: August three, 2010

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Animals need to reproduce to forbid their species from extinction. Animals reproduce by laying eggs or giving nascency. Different animals have their own ways to ensure the survival of their species.

Animals that give birth to their young nurture and care for their babies. Their mothers suckle their immature and accept their own ways to protect their immature from danger.

• Moo-cow – Protect it's young with its horn
• Cat – Fight attackers with its claws and motion their kittens to a safer place if the kittens are disturbed.
• Kangaroo – Carries its  young in its pouch wherever it goes.
• Zebra, elephant and giraffe – stays in group for a ameliorate defense
• Whale and dolphin – Stays close to its calves
• Leopard – Attacks its enemies with sharp teeth and claws

Not all animals that lay eggs accept care of their eggs and immature. This is what a typical bird will do to ensure the safety of its eggs and immature:

1. Build a expert nest in a safety spot
2. Incubate their eggs after they lay them
3. Feed their young when they hatch
4. Protect their young from predators

These are some animals that lay eggs and how they ensure the survival of their eggs and young.

• Turtle – Lays hundreds of eggs at  nighttime and buries them in the sand. Their eggs are protected past soft shells or skin
• Spider – Lays egg in a silk cocoon and carries the silk cocoon everywhere it goes
• Snake – Coils round the eggs and attacks animals that come up shut to the eggs
• Bounding main horse – The male sea horse apply its pouch to store the eggs and looks later on them until they hatch. Information technology will protect the young until they tin fend for themselves.
• Siamese fighting fish – The male fish catches the eggs in its rima oris and drops them into a chimera nest that it has congenital. It likewise guards the nest and protects the babies.
• Crocodile – Lays eggs in the sand and stays nearby to guard the eggs. When the eggs hatch, information technology carries the baby crocodiles in the oral fissure to the river.
• Butterfly – Lays eggs on the underside of leaves.
• Frog – Lays large numbers of eggs with slimy and evil-smelling coverings  in the water. The covering  prevents and discourages other animals from eating the eggs. The covering will be eaten past the tadpoles when they come up out of the eggs.
• Fish – Lays lots of eggs close to h2o plants to hide them. Some fish proceed their young in their mouth.
• Grasshoppers – Lays eggs in the soil.
• Snail – Lays about 60 – 100 eggs at nighttime and buries them nether stones.
• Scorpion – Carries its young on its dorsum
• Cockroach – Lays egg protected past hard coverings and hides them in dark places.
• Housefly – Lays up to 500 eggs and hides them under rubbish or faeces.

Laying eggs on the underside of leaves or nearly rocks and waterplants helps to protect the eggs from beingness eaten. Laying lots of eggs ensure that some of the eggs have the risk to grow upwardly into adult animals.

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