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Article: WHEN DAD IS A REAL ANIMAL SOME FATHERS IN THE WILD ARE SWEET AS LAMBS - OTHERS ARE JUST BEASTLY TO THEIR KIDS.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 19, 1999
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Your Homo sapiens dad's a real stand-up guy.
But would he roll you up in a dung ball for protection?
Would he undergo wrenching contractions to give birth to you and a couple hundred siblings?
Would he sacrifice food for a significant chunk of his limited life span to carry you through incubation - then stifle a gnawing urge to eat you?
Raise those fins and claws and pointy little talons and give it up for the Mr. Moms of the animal kingdom, those hard-working, overlooked Superdads who do twice the work and get half the credit.
``You always hear about the mothers, not the fathers,'' says Holly Reed, associate veterinarian at ...