Mammas

Mothers – all mothers – cannot help being maternal. What is this trait, this characteristic common to all mothers?

Wasp Mammas don’t need fancy bottle warmers or breastfeeding pillows. They make sure their babies have all the nourishment they’ll need ahead of time by paralyzing caterpillars and...

Good babysitters are hard to find, so Mamma Cuckoos use some slight-of-wing to trick other birds into hatching and raising their young. They slip their eggs into the nests of small...

Being a Mamma requires some sacrifice, especially if you are a Spider, Diaea egrandros. The number one priority for almost all Mammas is to make sure their babies have all the food...

Cichlid Fish Mammas store their eggs in their mouths, so that’s where Cichlid fathers have to fertilize them. Naughty! Soon after that, lots of Cichlid babies swim out and those Ma...

Toad mammas don't carry one big baby in their bellies, but many littles babies on their backs.

Hamster Mammas have a lot of babies. Up to 10 at a time! Sometimes that is too many mouths for one Mamma to feed, so she eats a couple up so she can give those remaining siblings s...

Raising babies can be expensive! That’s why Dunnock bird Mammas practice polyandry and have more than one male mate. More men means more dads bringing home the bacon. Or in this ca...

Oil beetle larvae can trick themselves onto a bee mamma and eat all that she provides for her babies, and the babies too!

The Piping Plover is an actress! Charadrius melodius pretends to be wounded in order to protect its eggs from predators.