Sunday, May 9, 2010

Moms of the Animal Kingdom(image 3 of 15)

Animal Moms: Bottlenose Dolphins


Bottlenose dolphins, like other mammals, nurse their young. Because nursing can be a little tricky under water, a mother may help her calf suckle by ejecting milk from her mammary glands. The calf nurses for about a year and a half, but even after weaning a young dolphin knows it has a good thing going and stays close to its mother for several years.


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