Most Incredible Ways Animals Give Birth

well the sea horse is an unusual fish normally female animals carry a child but sea horses do it the other way around for 9 to 45 days the future father carries the eggs inside a special pouch until the birth process begins then the male opens his brood pouch and squeezes out the children [Music] the female anaconda finds the deepest puddle and spends her pregnancy in it she will starve for about seven months while pregnant then she will give birth to 40 children that make up 30 percent of her body weight her babies are completely independent and will explore the world around them the surinam toad looks like a normal toad but is totally flat unlike most animals this one carries its future children not inside but on its back female toads have special holes on their backs for each egg where the babies develop after three to four months the little surname toads wake up and crawl out of the pockets on mom's back [Music] kangaroos are born just one month after conception but they're not yet ready for life in the outside world newborn kangaroos are smaller than an inch these tiny creatures crawl into their mom's pouch using their front legs after 195 days the kangaroo grows big and strong enough to leave the pouch sea urchins lay more than 2 million eggs but not all survive male and female urchins throw something like a cloud into the water which contains the future offspring in the next few hours if the egg cloud is not eaten by other sea creatures the eggs will turn into a ball with microscopic hairs and then form a skeleton at this point they're ready for their own reproduction most animals either lay eggs or have a live birth but the jackson's chameleon does both and gives birth up to 30 young at a time the female bears the eggs minus a shell right inside her body instead of laying them as many other chameleon species do in the yellow head jawfish family a dead fish takes care of the future offspring the male broods the eggs inside his mouth after the birth the male carries his babies in this safe place the brooding method lets the father keep his children safe because he can swim away from danger with the babies in his mouth sloths spend most of their time on the treetops their birth process is extravagant the female lets her hind legs dangle and clings to a branch only by her front ones and gives birth in this position the baby sloth grabs the mother's fur right after birth and climbs to her chest the velvet spider builds a special room for giving birth and child care just like weaving a spider web she constructs a cocoon around her where she lays up to 80 eggs then she makes a hole in the cocoon so that the offspring can escape but this hole is too small for her so she will never come out for two weeks she will feed the hatch spiders until they become independent [Music] whales the biggest mammals in the animal kingdom give birth underwater so their babies have to rise all the way up to the surface to take their first breath mom oil will feed the baby with 54 fat milk for the next four months until it grows enough to eat on its own [Music] octopuses give birth only once in a lifetime one of the arms of the male octopus is adapted to fertilize females some octopus separate the arm from their body and give it to the female after laying eggs female octopuses circulate water currents over the eggs to clean them and protect them from predators now imagine giving birth to a baby the size of a four-year-old poor mom but that's what kiwi birds do their eggs can weigh up to a quarter of their body mass to produce such a big egg female kiwis have to eat three times more than usual shingleback lizards also have a difficult pregnancy these animals normally have up to two babies which doesn't seem so bad but the babies can make up a third of the mother's weight this like a human giving birth to a seven-year-old child giraffes are some of the tallest terrestrial animals which has an effect on the birth process in a giraffe birth the baby first pokes out the front hooves then the nose and the entire head within an hour the baby is born before taking the first breath the baby giraffe falls from the height of six and a half feet to the ground [Music] hammerhead sharks can give birth without mating with another shark basically they're just making copies of themselves this was first discovered in 1999 in a nebraska zoo there are just a few other animal species like some geckos and lizards that can reproduce this way porcupines are known for their sharp quills in the womb these quills are soft but right after birth when coming in contact with air for the first time they become hard and sharp naked mole rats are incredibly reproductive they live in colonies and have a queen who is the only female to give birth first-time moms can have up to 15 babies but every litter after the number of babies grows at her peak a mole rat queen can have up to 33 babies which is the largest litter size of any mammal on earth hippopotamus pregnancies last about eight months despite the animal's big size when ready to give birth hippo moms leave the herd for two weeks to establish a strong connection with their babies hippo calves are born underwater so they learn to swim from the very beginning [Music] zebras have a really hard time after birth both for mom and the baby zebras are an animal who can see a new moored baby as a potential threat in the future so when a baby's zebra comes out a male zebra can attack it immediately the mother protects her offspring often not having any time to rest [Music] elephants have the longest gestation period of all mammals lasting more than 18 months though they live up to 70 years most elephants won't have more than four babies when the elephant mom is ready to give birth other elephants from the herd form a protective circle around her until she delivers the baby at birth they can weigh up to 260 pounds to protect them from predators barnacle geese lay eggs on a cliff at 400 feet which is the height of a 36 story building when the eggs hatch the little chicks face a problem there's no food nearby because they're on a rock so at just a few days old they jump off the cliff and try to make a soft landing although marine iguanas don't have to leap off a cliff they're also in a hurry soon after they're born female marine iguanas lay eggs in an underground cave that they dig this is a safe place to hide from predators but sooner or later the baby iguanas come out of these caves to eat and this is the moment when snakes start to hunt them the fastest and strongest iguanas survive to enjoy the food

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Length: 8min 1sec (481 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 24 2020