Weakest Piglets May Sneak Help from Strongest Siblings
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🗓️ 28 December 2016
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| 0:37.0 | Human parents usually have one or sometimes two offspring at a time, |
| 0:41.0 | and when babies get delivered, we pour all our energy into trial rearing. |
| 0:45.4 | But other animals raise lots of babies at once, and the weaker individuals can be at a big |
| 0:50.5 | disadvantage. |
| 0:51.5 | If there's not enough food, for example, a mother bird might offer |
| 0:55.1 | more to those chicks who are more likely to survive. Nature is a rough place. But mammals like |
| 1:00.8 | pigs can't selectively provision their offspring the way birds do because all the babies |
| 1:06.2 | nourish at the same time. And yet, the strongest piglets still seem to have an edge. One hypothesis goes that the weaklings might not have enough energy |
| 1:16.1 | to stimulate the mammary gland while they suckle, so they eventually starve from a lack of nutrition. |
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