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Animals Help Their Babies Survive
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- Living things have babes called offspring.
- Parents can help their offspring survive.
- Babies have behaviors to communicate their needs.
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Before VideoWhat kinds of things do your parents do to take care of you?ANSWER
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Parents provide clothes, food and water for their children. They also provide a home and protect them from danger.
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Animals feed their babies. Some animals also carry and protect their babies. They might also teach them things like how to hunt for food.
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Many baby animals can’t walk or even see when they are born, so they need their parents to get food for them. Parents take care of them until they are ready to survive on their own.
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You may have seen a dog feeding milk to its puppies, or a bird taking worms back to the nest to feed its chicks.
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Animals can teach their babies how to find food. They also teach their babies about dangers such as predators. Beavers can show their babies how to build a beaver dam.
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They might not survive, or they would have to figure out how to get food on their own. Some baby animals can survive without parents but it is much harder.
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After VideoWhat are some ways that animals help their babies survive?ANSWER
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Animals feed their babies and also protect them. After the babies get a little bigger, the parents might teach their babies how to hunt or hide from predators.
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Baby animals need time to grow and get strong. They also need time to learn things about where to get food and how to stay safe from predators.
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Many animals make noise to let their parents know they are hungry. Birds chirp and other animals make whining noises.
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The skink gets a lot of good bacteria from poop. It helps them stay healthy.
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The American alligator carries babies on its back and in its mouth. It also guards the babies and could attack other animals that come near them.
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Kangaroos feed milk to their babies. They also keep babies warm and safe inside their pouch.
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Vocabulary
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Offspring
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Babies of animals.
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Parents
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The mother and father of an animal.
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Communicate
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To share information.
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Survive
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To stay alive.
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Needs
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Things required for survival.
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Protect
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To keep safe.
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Carnivore
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A meat eater.
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Marsupial
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An animal with a pouch.
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Offspring
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Download as PDF Download PDF View as Separate PageWHY DO ANIMAL HELP THEIR BABIES?Animal babies are called offspring. Many animals help their offspring survive until they grow strong enough to go off on their own. Parents can feed and protect their offspring.
To better understand how animals help their babies survive…
WHY DO ANIMAL HELP THEIR BABIES?. Animal babies are called offspring. Many animals help their offspring survive until they grow strong enough to go off on their own. Parents can feed and protect their offspring. To better understand how animals help their babies survive…LET’S BREAK IT DOWN!
Animal babies can communicate with their parents.
Baby birds chirp to tell their parents that they are hungry. Other baby animals make different noises when they need food. Baby humans cry and puppies whine.
Animal babies can communicate with their parents. Baby birds chirp to tell their parents that they are hungry. Other baby animals make different noises when they need food. Baby humans cry and puppies whine.Some animals help their babies in unusual ways.
Skink babies can eat the poop of their parents. There are good things in the poop that help the offspring stay healthy. When they are older, they eat bugs.
Some animals help their babies in unusual ways. Skink babies can eat the poop of their parents. There are good things in the poop that help the offspring stay healthy. When they are older, they eat bugs.Animals can protect their babies from predators.
The American alligator can carry babies in its mouth. The alligator is very careful not to hurt them. This allows the alligator to keep them safe from predators.
Animals can protect their babies from predators. The American alligator can carry babies in its mouth. The alligator is very careful not to hurt them. This allows the alligator to keep them safe from predators.Some animals have pouches to carry babies.
Kangaroos are called marsupials because they have a special pouch for their babies. The babies are warm and are also protected from danger in their mother’s pouch.
Some animals have pouches to carry babies. Kangaroos are called marsupials because they have a special pouch for their babies. The babies are warm and are also protected from danger in their mother’s pouch.Many animals produce milk for their babies.
Some baby animals drink their mother’s milk until they are big enough to find their own food. The milk gives the baby animals all the nutrients they need to grow.
Many animals produce milk for their babies. Some baby animals drink their mother’s milk until they are big enough to find their own food. The milk gives the baby animals all the nutrients they need to grow. -
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