I have seen videos of some of the animal mothers not taking care of their babies after giving birth and ignoring them completely or even acting exasperated with them . Why does this happen? Is it the same reason as some human mothers who accidently got pregnant not being interested in parenthood?
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If you mean why some species don’t care for their young, it’s because their survival strategy doesn’t rely on that.
But if you speak about some specific cases in animals that do otherwise care about their young, then that is much more complicated, because there could be multiple reasons. From some instincts being not as strongly engraved, to them not being triggered, to the personality of an individual animal. Some cats reject some or all of their litters just to continue and have successful litters later on.
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