Chou Toshio
Over9000
This is a simple topic but one surprisingly ungoogle-able.
Anyone think of how novel it is how humans raise siblings?
It's much more common in the animal kingdom for siblings to literally try to kill each other than for parents to simultaneously raise offspring from different age litters.
So what animals do raise offspring of different litters/ages simultaneously? This is a surprisingly complex behavior.
Orcas?
Apes?
Are there others that even really do it besides humans?
Maybe colony animals, but that's not really the parents doing it?
Thoughts? Is multiple litter rearing surprisingly an incredible phenomenon? Or nothing special about our species?
Anyone think of how novel it is how humans raise siblings?
It's much more common in the animal kingdom for siblings to literally try to kill each other than for parents to simultaneously raise offspring from different age litters.
So what animals do raise offspring of different litters/ages simultaneously? This is a surprisingly complex behavior.
Orcas?
Apes?
Are there others that even really do it besides humans?
Maybe colony animals, but that's not really the parents doing it?
Thoughts? Is multiple litter rearing surprisingly an incredible phenomenon? Or nothing special about our species?
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