“Prepare to Melt: Discover 50 Irresistibly Cute Photos of Expecting Animals That Will Tug at Your Heartstrings!”
#7 I Work At A Doggy Daycare And We Foster For A Local Bully Rescue. This Is Our Newest Foster, Sydney. She Was Pulled From The County Shelter And Is Pregnant
We decided to give her a super extra maternity photo shoot.
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#8 Olive’s Maternity Shoot
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#9 I’m Fostering A Very Pregnant Cat. There Are Five Kittens In There
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Fairly recent research has found that mother elephants don’t miss a beat while pregnant. Or even shortly after. Rest? Ain’t no mommy got time for that. Researchers from Oxford University worked with Save The Elephants to take a closer look at pregnancy and birth among African elephants. They put gps trackers on the giants and were amazed by what they found.
#10 That Mumma Is Ready To Pop
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#11 She Must Be Ready For This Baby (Or Babies) To Be Born! She Is So Big, But Seems Unfazed By It
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#12 Happy Preggy Goat! Amelia Is Going To Be Giving Birth Soon
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According to the university, “the average daily speed of the mother did not significantly change during pregnancy, birth and when moving with a newborn calf, except for a small dip in daily speed on the day of birth itself.” It turns out the mother elephants were just as fast the day before giving birth, as they were the day after.
“We speculate that this ability ‘to keep up’ may underpin why elephants have the longest gestation period [pregnancy] of any mammal in order to facilitate an advanced state of foetal physical development, and may have evolved to help elephant herds stay together,” the lead author, Dr Lucy Taylor from the University of Oxford is quoted as saying.
