How do baby animals grow up and learn to take care of themselves?
Growing Up Wild
How do baby animals grow up and learn to take care of themselves?
Every animal that walks, swims, or flies started out as a small, wobbly, slightly clueless beginner. None of them arrived knowing how to find food, dodge danger, or build a nest. So how does a helpless little thing turn into a grown-up that can handle the world? Let's follow a few of them and find out.
It starts with the basics: a body that grows. Babies eat — a lot — and that food becomes muscle, bone, fur, and feathers. A fox kit doubles in size in just weeks. The first job of growing up is simply getting bigger and stronger, because a body has to be able to do a thing before a brain can learn to use it.
