How Animal Babies Stay Safe

How Animal Babies STAY SAFC

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

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.

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

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.

This kind of knowledge is called instinct.