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How Do They Give protection to Their Small children?


How Do They Give protection to Their Small children?
African jacana (photograph from Wikimedia Commons)

8 March 2024

How does a fowl that nests on lily pads offer protection to its tiny chicks when they’re too small to leap from pad to pad?

African jacana chick (photograph from Wikimedia Commons)

You might suppose that mom birds will be the protectors however within the social construction of African jacanas (Actophilornis africanus) the women folk could have more than one associates and not calm down, so it’s as much as the fathers to construct the nest, hatch the eggs and offer protection to their children.

Watch how this dad protects his younger.



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