Remember, Dad can anything, only his mother can not be? And that's not true. Can! There are individual in nature, where the care of posterity - the care of his father, who himself bears the future fathers, hatching eggs or... takes birth.
Editorial Kolobok.uaHe gathered "dossier" on 8 of the fathers of wildlife.
SEA HORSE
Mom seahorses - a father. No, my mother they also have, but only nominally: it resets the eggs in a special pocket on the belly "spouse" and removed for their business. And dad starts her maternal duties. He fertilizes the eggs and half months bears them - that is, to bear pregnancy.
Further more interesting! When the fry daddy-in ridge ripen, he feels the contractions and gives birth to about 1,000 babies who literally jump out of the slits in the abdomen and float away on an independent voyage. In season seahorse "gives birth" every 4 weeks.
Nanda
This looked like a male ostrich - and a polygamist, and mother to their young. He collects eggs in the nest of 7-8 or even 12 females of his harem and incubates the clutch. Sitting all day, only occasionally removed for sustenance. And so - 6 weeks until the chicks hatch first! By the way, the last "child" of the masonry may appear only a week after the first child.
What next? Next - father walks and teach their young. It is interesting that when the male 12 years old, he leaves the flock and dies alone.
Monkey marmosets
The male of the smallest primates throughout pregnancy care about your partner, and when it comes to delivery, takes an active part in the process, like a real midwife. If we recalculate the weight baby and female marmosets have in relation to the human, will that my mother was born weighing 55 kg 14-pound baby!
But after childbirth dad-marmosets not going to celebrate the birth of a son with friends and caring for the baby, she is on the back, an introduction to the world around them... and brings to the mother for feeding.
BOLSHENOG (weeds CHICKEN)
Bolshenoga the female lays her eggs in a hole and go 'in English. " You think feathered chicks to hatch daddy? Not. Invented by the scheme better: eggs in a hole covered with fallen leaves, the plants rot and give off heat - it is used for heating the masonry. If the temperature in the nest becomes higher, the father-bolshenog rake leaves and cools it. It became colder - it fills the hollow portion of the new leaves.
As bolshenog distinguishes between the temperature in the nest? "Sensors" in favor of the male neck: several times during the hours it is "dive" head in the nest and finds the temperature. And so - 11 months. And then - the chicks once they hatch from the eggs begin to live an independent life. From the first day they can fly.
Jackal and coyote
These predatory pussies monogamous - that is to say, the couple lives together for life. And when female bears puppies, dad literally around the clock to hunt to feed his wife, and then - and newborn babies. To simplify their digestion of food, Daddy... burp them part already digested food.
YAKANA
Female yakany - subtropical and cuckoo... "nymphomaniac." It lays eggs in the nest of the male (and female mate 3-4 times per season) and runs off to find a new partner. And to his father sitting in the nest can "shove" their eggs and absolutely extraneous "ladies".
Father yakana displays nestlings and then tenderly cares for his feathered brood. During the season, dad usually takes a couple of "groups" chicks.
FROG AND TOAD
Did you know that in nature there are 579 species of frogs and the same species of frogs? All these species share one thing in common: the future tadpoles - a caring father. And that's not the irresponsibility of frogs-moms. Nature "equipped" pap frogs special devices on the body to carry the eggs until they are ripe to tadpoles.
And yet ripe tadpole "grow a" his mouth and learn to eat the algae - it will take a few days - it absorbs nutrients, sucking them through the skin parent.
Emperor penguins
Penguins - for equality. The female laid an egg, and the male incubates it. He puts it on his feet and gently covers the top skin fold in the abdomen (nasednaya bag). He goes so daddy penguin about 3 months, and the female comes back exactly to the appearance of chick. If mom paused, dad feeds child special nutritious juice that is produced in his body.
Curiously, the penguins are organizing a kind of "kindergarten", which lead their chicks and duty queue, protecting youngsters from wind and predators. Parents penguins take turns coming in "kindergarten", find your baby and feed him only.
