Why do animal moms reject their babies sometimes?
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No one knows what the animals are thinking when they do it. But it is believed that the evolutionary reason for doing so is that if the mother spends too much effort on a defective or weak offspring, then the other healthier offspring may suffer or die as a result. Mothers who are unwilling to abandon defective babies (i.e. they "love" them too much) would therefore not pass on this "love" gene because they would have fewer offspring. The wild is full of cruel, cruel things.
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Actually, I don't know if the above answer to your question is actually right. The only times that we see mothers eating/killing their young is in a few situations: 1] Their motherly/animalistic/survival instincts -- they have a superior sense of a healthy child, and if the newborn is sick, or too weak to survive, the mother either ignores or eats the newborn. 2] If there's too much stress for the Mothers they attack their young -- This is the HUGE debates over zoos because of the occurances of Mothers consuming their kids while in captivity. 3] If their young newborn is exposed to another type of mammal/animal, the mother tends to kill the young animal because of the bacteria, and probable sickness introduced, and probably induced on the young one. For protection, because remember, killing the newborn is better than letting it suffer. They have no sense of moral obligations, only survival means. T
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