Many animals take care of their young. However, they do it in completely different ways. In the course of evolution, each family has developed its own instincts, which tell them exactly how to behave with offspring.
Instructions
Step 1
Not all animals after the birth of young are concerned about their fate, but those in whom parental instincts are developed try to pass on their skills to the offspring. Most animals learn from their parents. It is the mother, and in some cases the father, who shows the kids how to chew grass or track down prey, how and when to hide, and when to get into a fight.
Step 2
Cubs go through a much needed training and education process while playing with each other or with adults. In a friendly fight, young animals hone their fighting skills, and a mother or father is able, by grabbing a presumptuous offspring by the withers, to make him understand in what situations one should obey the elders and recognize the leadership of the leader.
Step 3
The separation of the child from the mother becomes an important factor in the upbringing process. Someone leaves babies almost immediately after birth. As a rule, such animals have a large supply of fat, which allows the baby to survive the first weeks (for example, this is how seals live). Other females abandon their grown offspring gradually, every day going further and further to hunt, and once finally leaving the cubs. This is the last mother's lesson - now the animals must learn to rely only on their own strength.
Step 4
Not all mother animals are affectionate and considerate with their young. Some educate the younger generation with cuffs. Macaques are prone to such non-pedagogical methods. They scratch, bite and drag their little ones by the fur. The most amazing thing is that monkeys, which were mistreated in childhood, will also raise their offspring. The same macaques, in whose families violence was not used, will not beat their own child.
Step 5
Sometimes animals raise their offspring in very strange ways. The gravedigger beetle is one of the few insect species that takes care of children, and both father and mother do this. However, their method is very indicative and harsh: parents simply eat naughty children so that those who remain will be discouraged.
