How Animal Babies Stay Safe

How Animal Babies STAY SAFC

动物宝宝怎么保护自己

Manybabies an'ttake car ofthemselves. They need an adult to help them stay safe.

宝宝大多没办法照顾自己。它们需要大人来保护。

Animal parents care for their babies just as yourparents care for you. They feed, clean, carry, andprotect their young until the babies are old enoughto do it for themselves.

就像爸爸妈妈照顾你一样，动物的爸爸妈妈也会照顾它们的宝宝，给宝宝喂食、清理身体，带着它们到处走，保护年幼的它们，直到它们长大，可以自己做这些事情。

Some animal babies may need their parents forafew weeks. Some need them for afew years. Humanbabies need their parents the longest of all.

有些动物宝宝需要爸爸妈妈保护几个星期，有些需要几年。我们人类的宝宝需要爸爸妈妈保护的时间更长些。

There are babies who don't needtheir parents. When turtles, snails, snakes, and saltwatercrabs hatch, they already know how to findfood and escape from their enemies.

有些动物宝宝完全不需要爸爸妈妈来保护。 乌龟、蜗牛、蛇和盐水蟹刚出生，就知道如何寻找食物和躲避敌人。

This kind of knowledge is called instinct.

这就叫本能。