#parental behavior

[nine98k]

Did I write this down before?

I know a man who is living with a boy who is his ex-wife’s son. The mother left in the boy’s teens while they were living with the man. The “boy” is a young adults now and they’re still living together. The biological father passed away around his 18th.

I don’t know the full story, but I respect that man a lot. I don’t know why he did what he did and does what he does. I think he did something kind and he is still continuing to be kind like that.

[lord-pigeon]

Ngl didn't expect to come out the event shipping Sucrose and Collei but here we are

[enomas-thron]

She Gave Me A Purpose: 1 Month, 3 Weeks

She Gave Me A Purpose: 1 Month, 3 Weeks

Shadow’s ears twitched to someone knocking on his bed’s door.  “Shadow, you’re late again,” he could hear Jeremy say. He sighed and stuck his head out from under the covers. His room light hurt his eyes, but he could see the man’s silhouette. He pushed the covers off of himself and waited for the button to be pressed. “This is the third time I’ve opened the door,” Jeremy said as he let him…

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[todropscience]

STARFISH WITH BABIES, BROODING BEHAVIOR  REVEALED

ChrisM/ The equino blog

This motherly starfish is taking care of her starbabies. Some starfish species, such as this one Diplasterias brandti, brood and carry their babies until they are ready to leave the nest, just like some vertebrate species.

SEVERAL different species of sea stars brood. Almost all of them are either cold-water species, living in the deep-sea or at the poles. Sometimes brooding is in temperate water species.. But typically not in the tropics.

Brooding also takes different forms. The oral 'mouth' or gastric brooding mode is but one kind. Here is Diplasterias from the Antarctic!  MANY starfish in the Antarctic brood juvenile starfish!

Photo: Smithsonian NMNH USARP