Most difficult births in animals in the world
Most difficult births in animals in the world. This article give the details of the birth process of different animals It elaborates Kangaroo birth, Hyena birth and Porcupine birth. Moreover, it also gives the details of Kiwi birth, Python birth, Red Carb birth. Besides this, the process of snail birth and birth of elephant is also the part of this article. It also covers birth of shingleback lizard, stegodyphus lineatus and tasmanian devil. Besides elephant birth process, it elaborates the different birth of animals. This article is written by Dr. Mujahid Hussain DVM, RVMP
Veterinary Officer, Wildlife and Parks Department Punjab
جگنو روشنی کیسے پیدا کرتا ہے؟ جگنو کے حوالے سے دلچسپ حقائق پر مشتمل ڈاکٹر مجاہد حسین کی تحریر
گیرینک (زرافہ ہرن) کے حوالے سے دلچسپ حقائق، ڈاکٹر مجاہد حسین
کچھوے کے خول بارے دلچسپ حقائق پر مشتمل خصوصی تحریر، ڈاکٹر مجاہد حسین
سدرن نسل کے زرافے کی پاکستان میں پہلی دفعہ پیدائش، ڈاکٹر شاہد جلیل کی خصوصی گفتگو
Giving birth to a child is not an easy task, but in humans this act is very rare compared to some animals. There are some animals in the animal kingdom in which giving birth to a child is equivalent to giving birth to a lion cub and you will surely be amazed to know about them. Some of these animals are mentioned in this article.
Birth in Kiwi
The female of this bird found on the island of New Zealand lays an egg weighing an average of 12 centimeters long, 8 centimeters wide and 371 grams in 30 days. This is not an ordinary egg, but rather 20-25% of the female’s body weight in weight, meaning that it is as if a human female of average weight/age gives birth to a four-year-old child. In the last days of egg formation, the internal organs of the female are so pressed by the egg that the female is unable to take any food. The brown kiwi lays two and sometimes three eggs at a time, which makes the mind dizzy just thinking about it.
Birth in Shingleback Lizard
This blue-tongued reptile found on the Australian continent does not lay eggs, but young. After a five-month gestation period, the female gives birth to 2-3 young at a time, which may seem insignificant, but if the size of the young is added up, it is one-third of the female’s body weight, which is the same as an average-weight/age human female giving birth to an eight-year-old child.
Porcupine Birth
The spines on the body of this animal (porcupine/hedgehog/porcupine) protect it from predators, but these spines sometimes cause immense pain to the female. After a gestation period, 1-3 babies (porcupettes) are born with soft quills, and after an hour these quills become hard. In case of any complication (e.g. placenta not being able to keep the quills soft, baby being in the wrong direction at the time of birth, etc.), these quills can get stuck in the female’s vagina, causing pain and illness.
Spotted Hyena Birth
After a gestation period of 98-111 days, the female of this animal gives birth to 2-4 babies, which come out from the bottom rather than the back because the female’s uterine canal is on the bottom instead of the back, which is called a pseudo-penis. Sometimes during the birth of a 1-1.5 kg baby, the clitoris, which is about 1 inch wide, tears open to open the way, which takes several weeks to heal. This process of birth can be not only painful but also fatal, which is why about 15% of females die during the birth of their first baby.
Birth in Stegodyphus lineatus
This desert spider lays about 80 eggs at a time. After fifteen days, the female hatches from the eggs and feeds the babies with chewed (regurgitated) food for two weeks, losing 41% of her body weight to the babies. After two weeks, the babies ride on the female’s stomach and eat 54% of the female’s internal fluids in two to three hours, and in this way, after a total loss of 95% of the body, the female’s exoskeleton remains.
Birth in Tasmanian Devil
The world’s largest carnivorous marsupial. The female of this animal gives birth to about 20-50 babies at a time, the size of grains of rice, which crawl through the birth canal into the female’s pouch and develop there for the next four months. But the female’s pouch has only four teats, so as soon as they are born, the babies start a race for life in which only the strongest four babies win and the rest go to the arms of death.
Birth in Red Crab
The female of this crab, found on Christmas Island, Australia, lays about one hundred thousand eggs within three days after mating and incubates them for 12-13 days in tunnels in the mud or coastal rocks. During the waning moon, the female carries the eggs in a brood pouch to the beach and releases them into the sea, performing a special dance when the waves hit the water. As soon as the eggs touch the water, larvae hatch from the eggs, which reach the surface when they are 5 mm in size, and their numbers look like a red carpet. They then hide in the rocks and forest debris for three years.
Birth in Kangaroo
The baby kangaroo comes out through the cloaca under the tail after spending 33 days in the womb of the female and at that time the baby is the size of a lima bean (about 2 cm) and weighs about 800 mg. At birth, the baby is blind and deaf, as well as hairless. At this time, the baby’s body has nothing on it except for the two front arms, with the help of which it crawls upwards into the abdominal pouch a few minutes after birth, grabbing the hair of the female’s body and attaching itself to the teats there, which are four in number. These teats produce milk depending on the age and developmental stages of the baby, the nutritional content of which changes as the baby grows. A female can breastfeed two babies of different ages at a time, depending on their nutritional needs.
Birth Process in African Land Snail
Although this snail is considered one of the slowest animals in the world, it is also one of the fastest and most prolific animals in the world. This hermaphrodite mollusk lays about 500 eggs at a time from a hole near the mouth two to three weeks after mating, and it does so every two to three months. The eggs hatch in one to two weeks.
Birth Process in Python
The female python lays eggs. The number of eggs varies by sex, but a large python lays about 100 eggs at a time. Snakes do not usually guard their eggs, but the python will wrap itself around the eggs and, if the temperature drops, will warm them by shaking its body (it looks as if the python is hiccuping). After sixty days, the eggs hatch into young (snakelets) and they then grow up on their own, as the python isolates the young.
Birth Process in African Elephant
The gestation period of the African elephant is longer than that of all mammals in the world. After spending an average of 22 months in the womb of the elephant, a baby weighing 91-120 kg and 3 feet tall (30 times larger than a human baby) is born into the world. The birth of a baby in an elephant is not only large but also strange, as the birth process takes place in the middle of the night, and if the birth is to take place during the day, the elephant has the amazing ability to pause it until night.
At the time of birth, the amniotic sac with the baby comes out first, which looks like a balloon. After birth, the elephant rubs the baby clean with the help of its trunk. If the elephant is a member of a group, all the elephants of that group gather around the baby and present a scene of protection, harmony and curiosity. It is very important for the baby to stand on its own legs within a few minutes so that its mouth can reach the elephant’s teats because for 10 years the baby has to drink elephant milk (about 3 gallons of milk daily) otherwise it will not be able to survive.
Finally, a message for all of you: “Your Body Can Withstand Almost Anything, It’s Your Mind You Have To Convince”
