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From: doug@wiley.UUCP (Doug Rudoff)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: male lactation
Message-ID: <1953@wiley.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 18:55:26 GMT
References: <1988Feb25.144629.3650@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: doug@wiley.UUCP (Doug Rudoff)
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <1988Feb25.144629.3650@utzoo.uucp> rising@utzoo.uucp (Jim Rising) writes:
>I say this because it is unknown in the Mammalia (with the possible 
>occasional--and probably pathological--excption of humans).  In many
>kinds of animals where it is possible for the males to care for and
>feed the newborn young it is common that the male plays an important--and
>often exclusive role in these activities.

I'm not a biologist, zoologist or whatever, but I've done enough reading
that I know that there are mammals in which the male has parenting
responsibilities.

Off the top of my head I can think of both coyotes and wolves. In
fact, I once had a psychology professor who had a dog that was one
fourth wolf and he told a story about how the dog acted as a "father"
to a litter of kittens.



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