Ideal parents

1. Ideal parents

2. Pinguins • Pinguin male and pinguin female take care of their egg. Incubation takes 33 days. • After the hatching – male looks after the child. • Small pinguin spends its childhood in nursery school.

3. Koala bear • Koala female is pregnant for 35 days. • After baby ´s birth, it climbs to mother ´s pocket, where it sticks to the mammary dug for 6 months. • Then it climbs from the pocket to mother ´s back. The first solid food is mother ´s excrement, which contains important microbes necessary for digestion and imunity. • Young koala bear stays in mother ´s armful one whole year

4. Elephants • Elephants are inteligent, they live in complicated and organized groups. • They are hitting high age. • When the young elephant is born, each member of a herd takes care of baby.

5. Sea horse • Sea horse male and sea horse female make monogamous pair, whitch lives together for all reproduction period. • They make every day „dancing ritual“ • Female puts eggs to male ´s belly pocket. • Sea horse male is the only male, who is pregnant • When the small sea horses hatch inside of father ´s belly. He gives birth to them. • Small sea horses are then totally self-supporting

6. Tigers • Tigers males don´t bring up their babies. • Mother tiger nurses them and teaches them how to hunt. And she stays with them for 2 years till they are independent.

7. Albatross • Albatrosses make permanent and faithfull pairs for the whole life • Albatross female lays only one egg. Both of parents take turns in warming egg, until baby ´s hatching. • Baby albatross stays in home nest for 17 weeks. After changing feathers it starts flying.