Male fox at home doing housework

Parenting roles have been swapped in a fox. Researchers found mothers reporting bats to eat food while fathers stayed at home to look after their children and look after their homes.

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This modern division may seem rare in the animal world, because males take care of children only in 5-10% of mammals. This result shows that parental cooperation will benefit children, especially when parents follow the monogamy regime and do the best for their children.

In foxes fed with Otocyon megalotis, it is not easy for males to walk about a pile of insects, so the females will hunt in their own way.

" Chewy foxes may be different from other parents because males do not bring them back to the cave, but only females can bring them back in the form of chewing and secrete into milk, " said Harry William Yorkstone Wright, research author. rescued, at the University of Warwick, England, said.

" Mothers take a lot of time to collect termites, so the males play an important role in protecting their offspring and then, when the offspring starts measuring their prey, the fathers will escort ."

Wright observed families of bat ear foxes in caves in Laikipia, central Kenya. While mothers go out to feed, fathers stay home with their babies, warm up and catch lice for their children.

Occasionally, males also go out to find fast food such as big insects, small birds and mole rats. They also protect themselves when there are enemies.

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