Category:Parental care in animals

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English: Media related to Parental investment animals providing care/defense/food, etc. to offspring.

parental investment

parental expenditure (time, energy etc.) that benefits one offspring at a cost to parents' ability to invest in other components of fitness, and is thus a form of sexual selection

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Subcategories

This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.

A

► Parental care in amphibians‎ (15 F)

B

► Baby animals following their mothers‎ (2 C, 19 F)
► Birds carrying chicks‎ (2 C, 13 F)
► Birds feeding young‎ (10 C, 224 F)
► Broken wing displays‎ (22 F)

C

► Cat scruffing‎ (5 F)
► Parental care in centipedes‎ (11 F)

L

► Lycosidae with babies on board‎ (24 F)

S

► Suckling animals‎ (14 C, 4 F)

W

► Wolves feeding puppies‎ (10 F)

Media in category "Parental care in animals"

The following 21 files are in this category, out of 21 total.

A Comb-crested Jacana carrying its chick, South Alligator River, Kakadu, Australia, May 2018.jpg 2,914 × 1,931; 2.98 MB
Allgemeine biologie (1915) (18103947662).jpg 1,630 × 2,660; 905 KB
An Opossum Wellcome L0047664.jpg 4,912 × 3,514; 4.42 MB
Anemone Fish protecting its spawn.jpg 2,951 × 1,791; 1.74 MB
Arboreal man (1916) (19742268092).jpg 2,243 × 3,692; 784 KB
Brachycybe Colony.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 3.91 MB
Brachycybe with eggs.JPG 887 × 669; 569 KB
FMIB 50701 Exotic Catfish (Aspredo), which "nurses" its eggs.jpeg 579 × 737; 106 KB
Heliornis fulica male pouch diagram.jpg 2,656 × 2,274; 590 KB
Honey badger, Mellivora capensis, carrying young pup in her mouth at Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Northern Cape, South Africa (34739010181).jpg 1,587 × 2,152; 374 KB
Jumbo Feeds Baby Castoria.jpg 1,032 × 762; 969 KB
Kai-Mook and family (2).jpg 1,024 × 768; 798 KB
Kai-Mook and family (3).jpg 1,024 × 768; 897 KB
Loxodonta africana Tuluba 101229 Schoenbrunn.jpg 1,820 × 1,365; 677 KB
Lumpfish guarding eggs, Newfoundland, Canada (5531839667).jpg 1,024 × 687; 238 KB
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Maternal-Food-Provisioning-in-a-Substrate-Brooding-African-Cichlid-pone.0099094.s002.ogv 23 s, 1,280 × 720; 11.12 MB
Oophaga pumilio tadpole.png 517 × 343; 508 KB
Paraphrynus sp. with her young - Belize.jpg 1,400 × 1,001; 1.3 MB
Ranitomeya imitator with tadpole.jpg 750 × 501; 268 KB
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Surf-and-turf-predation-by-egg-eating-snakes-has-led-to-the-evolution-of-parental-care-in-a-srep22207-s2.ogv 12 s, 640 × 480; 3.56 MB
White-fronted tern chick begging parent for food.jpg 1,920 × 1,080; 910 KB

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