Lots of creatures have defensive impulses that verge on fearsome, yet ferrets have a standard technique for protecting their babies– stripping down them. We’ve all known a couple of moms who’ve contemplated doing that, yet rather for their own particular rational sanity.
Seahorse
There’s a joke that the most common craving a woman has during pregnancy is for the father to carry the baby. Oh, to be a seahorse – the female deposits her eggs inside the male’s special stomach pouch, where he carries them until they are ready to hatch.