Animals Help Their Babies Survive

Parents provide clothes, food and water for their children. They also provide a home and protect them from danger.

Animals feed their babies. Some animals also carry and protect their babies. They might also teach them things like how to hunt for food.

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.

You may have seen a dog feeding milk to its puppies, or a bird taking worms back to the nest to feed its chicks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many animals make noise to let their parents know they are hungry. Birds chirp and other animals make whining noises.

The skink gets a lot of good bacteria from poop. It helps them stay healthy.

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.

Kangaroos feed milk to their babies. They also keep babies warm and safe inside their pouch.