Mother mongooses may risk death to protect unborn children

Friday, June 17, 2016 - 10:31 in Health & Medicine

Mothers will do anything to protect their children, but mongooses go a step further. Mongooses risk their own survival to protect their unborn children through a remarkable ability to adapt their own bodies, says new research published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Pregnancy can takes a physical toll that, according to some theories, may […]

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