“Prepare to Melt: Discover 50 Irresistibly Cute Photos of Expecting Animals That Will Tug at Your Heartstrings!”

"Prepare to Melt: Discover 50 Irresistibly Cute Photos of Expecting Animals That Will Tug at Your Heartstrings!"

#19 Juno’s Piglets Are On Their Way A Little Sooner Than Expected! Any Day Now, She’ll Be Ready

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#20 A Vision Of Beauty

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#21 Poor Rosemary Is Still Pregnant. She Can’t Walk Very Far Anymore But She Is Still Very Active And Babies Are Still Feeling Very Lively. I Don’t Think I Can Watch Her Get Any Bigger Than This

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While elephants are born ready, aphids are born pregnant! The bugs reproduce at a rapid rate, and don’t even need a mate. The females can birth up to twelve live babies at a time. Most of which are also already pregnant. They’re considered pests to many farmers and gardeners. And it’s no surprise why. “Because each adult aphid can produce up to 80 offspring in a matter of a week, aphid populations can increase with great speed,” warned the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.

#22 We Did A Maternity Shoot Today For My Very Pregnant Donkey

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#23 Two Years Ago I Rescued This Pregnant Stray In Texas. We Saw Her In A Parking Lot And Lured Her Into The Car With Chicken From Panda Express. This Is How She Slept The Whole Way To The Vet

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#24 She’s Wild, But I’ve Known Her And Fed Her For 2.5 Years. She’s Pregnant Again, Likely The Matriarch Of The Dozens Of Sage Lizards That Grace My Yard

I believe the word is gravid, as in with eggs.

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Here’s another fun fact from the progressive world of animal pregnancies: Male seahorses are the ones tasked with falling pregnant and giving birth. Researchers from the University of Sydney studied seahorses to see just how they do it. “Fathers incubate their developing embryos in a pouch located on their tail. The pouch is the equivalent of the uterus of female mammals. It contains a placenta, supporting the growth and development of baby seahorses,” they revealed in this research paper.

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