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fromMail Online
1 week ago

Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant friends give birth, study reveals

'She will come over and act like a little mouse midwife and very carefully, with her mouth and her paws, pull the pup out,' Professor Robert Froemke, from NYU Langone Health, told the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego, California.
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fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

Baby pictures: Brown eyes, long arms, very hairy. L.A. Zoo welcomes new orangutan

A baby male Bornean orangutan was born at the Los Angeles Zoo on Oct. 10, the first such birth there in nearly 15 years.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

Animals that debunk the myth of maternal instinct

First-time mammalian mothers often show clumsy, inexperienced maternal behavior, increasing early offspring mortality compared with experienced mothers.
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