Fun Baby Animal Facts

• Parrot parents name their chicks. Every baby is given a " Signature contact call" that is unique to them and they answer to for the rest of their lives.
• Baby Blue Whales can gain as much as 10 lbs. an hour or about 250 lbs. a day. Talk about easy keepers.
• Baby turtles make sounds inside the egg to communicate with each other to coordinate hatching as a survival mechanism against predators. 
• Puppies can be born as identical twins. But this rare in any animal species.
• Piglets can recognize their mothers voice. Sows are also known to sing the little ones to sleep.
• Baby Pandas only weigh about 3 1/2 ounces at birth but grow to be around 300lbs.
• Most baby reptiles have an egg tooth to crack out of shell when they hatch. The tooth is eventually reabsorbed in to the body.
• Baby macaques make snowballs and play.
• Lion cubs are born with spots, which fade as they grow.
• Rabbit kits are born hairless and blind but grow quickly.
• Swan cygnets ride on their mother's back while she swims to keep them safe from predators.
• Wolf pups start howling at just a few weeks old.
• Dolphin calves can swim minutes after birth but nurse for up to 18 months.
• Eaglets grow rapidly, tripling their weight in the first two weeks.
• Baby Elephants drink as much as 2,200 gallons of milk. 
• Baby Deer do not have a scent to help protect them from predators.
• 97% of the animal kingdom the responsibilities of parenthood fall primarily on one gender of the parents.
• Most baby Cotton-top Tamarin are one of a pair of twins. They are also raised cooperatively by the entire group.
• Male pipefish hold the sole responsibility of carrying and birthing their offspring. They select which embryos to nourish on how attracted they are to the mother.
• Baby Rhino's start to grow their horns at about five months.
• Baby Elephants will suck on their trunk as a way to comfort themselves.
• All baby Marsupials are born prematurely. Then develop in the pouches where they can be nurtured safe and warm.
• Baby Giraffes come into the world with a thud after the fall six feet from the birth canal.
• Baby sea otters are so covered so much fluff that they can not drown because they float like beach balls. But all that hair also means that they can't pull themselves out of the water.
• If a baby Squirrel is found abandon another squirrel will adopt it and raise it as its own.
• Boy puppies have an inner kindness, they often allow the girl puppies win when play fighting.
• Baby platypus are born from eggs and are about the size of a jellybean.

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