#parental care

[thegreatprinceoftheforest]

Plains Bison | Bryan Maynes

[anonpeggioredelmondo]

Io non immaginavo minimamente che in Spagna ci fossero così tante cicogne

[the-outlands]

Southern Aardwolf | Laurent Hesemans

[cellulosaurus]

Papa brings back fruits for his many babies

Quick little sketch based on today’s new study of baby Maiasaura teeth that shows these youngling weren’t fed pre chewed leaves but full hard fruits (Dryophyllum nuts for example). Notably that is not at all what adults ate (instead they fed on leaves, branches, barks and rotten wood) so this is some even more advanced parental care.

John P. Hunter, Christine M. Janis, “Tooth wear in juvenile and adult hadrosaurs: implications for parental care in Maiasaura”, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2026, 113707, ISSN 0031-0182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113707

[to-the-fishies]

So for anyone new, my mom has hips that should have been replaced years ago, and dementia. Both have worsened in the wake of my dad passing, and last November, we moved her to a nursing residence so that there'd be more people around to keep her from falling etc.

My brother has been devoted to driving her to church and to church choir; at a certain point, I supplemented the effort to get her to choir rehearsal so he wasn't doing all the driving, all the time.

I didn't drive her during Holy Week, because I had an extra choir rehearsal of my own, and I didn't drive her last week because her director was on spring break and cancelled rehearsal.

Somehow those two weeks were enough time for her to lose the sense of how to sit down on the passenger seat and pivot to get in my sedan. That, or her hips/legs? were bothering her more than usual (but in ways she can't articulate)

We were already kind of wondering how much longer church choir could work. This might be an indication.

[tigerleopardlion]

Southern Lion | Catherine Merlin

[packpack-killkill]

Mountain Coyote | K3 Photography MT