18 Of the Amazing Animal Facts That Will Make Your Day Bright

We love animals and we are feeling much pleasure by sharing these 18 of the amazing animal facts that will make your day bright and make you want to hug your mom.

1. Polar bears cubs stay with their mom for at least two years, learning the ropes about hunting and diving

2. A Harp seal mom can identify her baby from “hundreds of others based on smell alone.”

3. A lioness will hide her cubs in a dense bush until they’re old enough to join the pride

4. A moose calf can stay with his mom for up to a year before it’s time for mom to have another baby.

5. A mother cheetah finds a hiding place for their cubs before she goes hunting.

6. A mother hippopotamus gives birth to her baby underwater, then helps him to the surface so he’s able to breathe

7. A mother meerkat will leave her den to hunt, but she gets another meerkat to babysit her pups while she’s gone.

8. Baby elephants can’t see very well when they’re first born so they identify their mom through “touch, scent and sound.”

9. Baby rhinoceroses are born with no horn so they depend entirely on their mother for protection

10. Emperor penguin moms and dads alternate roles while raising a chick, one will hunt for food while they other stays at the breeding site to keep the baby warm and safe

11. For the first two years of their life, young orangutans are dependent their mom for food and transportation

12. Giraffe mothers “often return to where they were born to have their own babies.”

13. If a Siberian Tiger mom needs to move her babies to a safer place, she gently carries them by the scruff of their neck

14. If joeys are frightened, they’ll jump headfirst into their mother’s pouch!

15. Once a baby joey becomes too big for her pouch, a koala bear mom will carry him on her back

16. Sea lion pups and their mom communicate through special vocalizations so they can identify one another.

17. Wolf pups are born blind and deaf so they need constant attention from their mom!

18. Zebra moms keep their babies in the center of the herd to keep them safe from predators

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